brinshannara | A moment of reflection. (Reply)

I should like to take this moment to thank my father for buying a computer when I was nine years old, and to thank my parents for sending me to a school where we learned how to use word processors at the age of seven and eight.

I'd like to thank my dad for supporting me in all aspects of interest with computers -- from him teaching me how to use a mouse to using the dialup program for the modem, from letting me take a silly BASIC class at a daycamp to getting an IBM clone 286.

Without all my interest in computers in the past, I would surely be dead of freaked-outedness at the moment.

I've been wildly guessing how to do things in programs I've rarely used or never used before (SPSS and Power Point), on a tight schedule today, and it seems I'm pretty damn intuitive, because I helped JB compute a bunch of columns into a new variable without even testing it out myself, and I made a pretty graph and copied it into my Power Point presentation, all without trouble.

And I am EXTREMELY thankful at this moment that I have this level of comfort and familiarity with programs that I'm able to fumble through without too much issue. And it's basically all thanks to my dad.

So even though he'll never see this entry... Thanks, Dad. I really appreciate your encouragement and support over the years.