I was into technology before PC's & laptop's even existed. Had my Accounting Informations/Computerscience degree back in 1978 when the college computer filled a whole building. My very first job was working on the credit card system for Citi Corp back in 1978. My H I married in 1975 was also a computer science major & we actually got one of the very first IBM PC's & the first company I worked for got us a good deal on the first color computer which was a CompuColor. But without internet back in those days, there wasn't a whole lot to do with the computers & software was just being developed.

Ok, for my second job, I actually worked on a military version of the smart phone......it had GPS & data link capability but no voice....I worked on the data link end of that program. That unit was about the size of a 15 pound tablet (picture it about 1 1/2 inches thick with a stick lithium battery that weighed about 5 pounds). After that project I went onto working on data links that were programmed into the shelters that were used in the gulf war......worked on a radar system & then on an emulator computer for the air force.

I had a cell phone from the time cell phones came out & was so thrilled when I learned how to use the internet back in 2003.....aerospace & work all together for the people who had been in aerospace started to collapse in 1994 & that was when my dark ages started without my career....I was lost but had no other outlet for my tecnhical ability from any training that I had. Went to UCLA I did some graphic design but really didn't settle into anything. Finances were tight & by the time I actually left my H in 2007, I had a flip phone that could call & text on but I refused to text because of the cost. All my friends were getting smart phones & me, the techie was still in the dark ages. It was funny because they had no idea how to use their phones & they had no idea how to wire up things in their home....so that was always something I was good at. I didnt get my smart phone until a few years ago....I love it....I needed a new camera & decided to get a good smart phone that had a high quality camera rather than buying one separately.

My laptop I bought before leaving my H has since broken unable to be fixed. I bought a desk top that my H wanted & I took with me so that's what I am still working on....I really don't like the new windows personally though I'm having problems with plug-in & computer crashes constantly now & trying to figure out how to solve that problem.

I enjoy being on FB....it keeps me in contact with the few friends that I had in Calif & it also keeps me in touch with my horse trainer who is still boarding my horse as I haven't been able to afford to bring her here yet.

My internet here is high tech because we have NO cable & I have no land line.....they developed a system that is transmitted out from the main facility out to their transmitters that are located on the water towers & then transmitted out & we have antennas on our homes that pick up the signal & then it's wired through the house & to the computer & Wifi. I keep my wifi going even though I don't have my laptop because I use it for my phone so I don't have to used up my packet data limits & try to use wifi as much as possible when I can find it out & away from my house.....but hey satellite is great when needed.

I loved using my GPS driving the 2100 miles from where I lived to my new little farm & didn't get lost once. The connector on that broke...but I LOVE my phone GPS also....not much I don't use on the smart phone.....but it's definitely android because I needed cheap & GOOD quality.

Interesting because I haven't had a TV in all the 8 years I've lived here & I don't miss it one bit though I have to admit, when I am around a TV, I will watch it.

There are a lot of things with technology that I would like to do but really am not into spending the time to learn any longer...like web page design even though there are NOW wonderful tools out there so you don't have to program it like in the past....I just haven't taken the time to bother to learn. Think it would be fun because I have a lot of design creativity that I enjoy doing & that would be an artistic release of technology.....who knows maybe some day if I ever have enough time.....if everything around my farm would quit breaking....I might take the time to learn.

I do my own repairs around the farm as much as possible & YouTube has been a wonderful asset.....I have found out how to repair everything I need to repair from my clogged toilet to my broken kitchen sink & even replacing my EGR valve on my Dodge Ram 1500 truck.......maybe it's part of my technology mind set, but I don't think there is much that I can't so unless I can't afford the tools or it takes too much muscle that I don't have. I actually took my truck to the mechanic's before replacing my EGR valve because I couldn't get the 2 bottom bolts loose. They asked me if I wanted them to change the EGR valve for me but I told them I wanted the challenge.

The programming I did wasn't software....it was actually programming the hardware & the debugging was setting up scopes to see what the hardware was actually doing at the specific times.....it was more engineering then software programming & think I learned then that there wasn't anything I couldn't do & the things that were normally things that guys used to do....women could do just as well.....so I was always a part of the guys teams & enjoyed sharing the technical talks when we were out socializing.