In typical programmer fashion, I will begin this blogging with the classic title. I’m new to this blogging tool, so you may see some dramatic changes in format as I figure out how this thing works. As for now…
I am a 25 year old student of Computer Science, living in Southwest Washington with my wife. We are expecting a child in December (Christmas Eve, actually) but the doctors tell us due to some medical reasons, the baby may be yanked out earlier. If I’m not in school, I am working full time in my new IT position at a large shipping company in Portland, OR.
I am not one for hobbies. I don’t play sports or sew or anything. Outside of any honorable pursuits I listen to podcasts and music, I eat at restaurants with my wife. We spend quite a bit of time with her family, as they all live around here. Once I got married off, my parents moved to Utah to be closer to my other siblings (I have 3 sisters), though I see them at least once a year.
My journey to study Computer Science is a weird one. At a time where I had little career plans, my uncle had a roommate who worked as a freelance software developer. Unfortunately for me, whenever he would talk about what he did day-to-day he would speak in very technical terms, all of which I could not understand. But he peaked my interest enough to get me to take a free online course in Java. The creative problem solving and structured language made me feel very cool when I got something to work, like changing the colors of pixels.
If you fast forward a few years, a lot has happened since. I am nearing the end of my degree program and could hold a conversation with my uncle’s roommate any day. That is, if he didn’t move to Miami and steal crypto from a rich guy. It’s a wild story if you can find it out there. Nevertheless, I’m glad I embarked on this journey. And as I am a year away from the end, I’m hoping to start work on an exciting project that maybe is a tad more rewarding than, “Hello World!”