Hello everyone,
My name is Dave and I live in western Kansas in a small town of 250 people called Burdett. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled accross this site but have been reading it for a while before joining last month. I am 54 years old and am the husband of one wife who is the mother of my 5 children. We currently have 2 remaining at home. We all like computers and are pretty much self taught with the exception of my wife who majored in programming in college back in the good ol' keypunch days.
Our first computer was the Tandy Color Computer with an external cassette recorder. Then we graduated to a 386SX, then to a PII-233 in 1998. from there I had a Athlon XP1800 and just recently built a 1.6 Dual Core computer.
I am in charge of IT at a small K-12 school district composed of 2 districts and 3 buildings in 3 different towns. I handle the network, hardware, software and any other problems that come up. When I came here in 2002 we had 45 computers, one server in 2 buildings. Now we have 250 computers, 10 servers in 3 buildings, so we are coming up in th world. We now have 10 Macbook laptops for our high school yearbook and web design and I do not like them at all. I also have one of them that also has Windows on it and for that I am thankful. Enough said!
In 1997 at 44 years of age, I answered a call of God to attend a bible school, Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Tx. How we got there is probably not for this post and if anyone is interested I can email this amazing story to you. I did become an ordained minister, had a church for a year and half but am not currently pastoring at this moment. But I am active in a church.
I have 2 grandsons living in Alvarado, Tx that we don't get to see all that much but I do not like the 9 hour drive it takes to get there. We are 300 miles from Kansas City and Oklahoma City, 500 miles from Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Tx but only 140 miles form Wichita, KS. So we are aways from any city of any decent size. But its hard to get the country boy into the city (no, I am not a cowboy).
I do use FARR, Screenshot Captor, and some other programs from this site and I do APPRECIATE all the help everyone has given me and for putting up with my "silly" questions on how to do stuff. I really appreciate the fact this site doesn't have a lot of the bad langauge and flame wars like some other sites that I used to read do.
Keep up the good work!
Dave
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