20 Years and Still Working

Hi All:

This is my first shot at a blog. Thanks for taking time out of your crazy day to indulge me.

First, a bit aboutmy personal life. I am happily married to my best friend in the world. She is the light of my life. This year we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary! She's got me into this exercise program each night, which I (grumpily) agree to. We'll have to see if I can stick with it like she can!

I have three children: two in college (one studying abroad in Germany this semester), and a daughter who graduates from High School this spring.

My two dogs, Samson (a Golden Retriever) and Zachy (a lab mix), give me a lot of laughs throughout my day. More about them later.

For the past 20 years, I have worked for the same company, designing applications for a large insurance company. But changes are on the horizon. With Microsoft dropping support for Visual Basic 6, we are now required to move to Visual Basic .Net (hence the title of my blog). The programs that are being converted are ones that I have developed solely and know better than important dates (to my family's chagrin).

This past week I discovered that my company is, in their words, "shipping the apps overseas". I'm told that, even though I won't be involved at all in the programming, I will "play a role", whatever that means. We'll dive into that in another entry.

So starts the journey. Not sure where it will lead me, but knowing that God is in control does help me to face another day.

If you're bored, I'm sorry. I write code, not books. But thanks for investing in the time to listen to what I have to say.