It all started about five years ago. I was working customer service with a financial services company and Amy was doing childcare in our home. I had background as a trainer for a software company and as a customer service for the phone company. Our financial representatives kept complaining about how long it took to download customer information and documentation. My first thought was that they really needed to invest in high speed internet access if they wanted to be successful. Then it hit me! Amy had the same problem. She couldn’t watch kids upstairs and still complete her paperwork on the basement computer. She really needed a laptop computer and wireless access so she could work on the computer and watch kids at the same time. She was lukewarm about another one of my hairbrained ideas and reluctantly agreed. And now? Well, she’s on her second laptop, writes html, owns and operates zany-zebra.com, and has her hand in lilypadlanding.com, vaeyc.org, and appleton-child-care.com. Who coulda guessed? Depite the fact that she wants me to do routine compute maintainance, she’s so far beyond what I can do that it’s about time I started catching up with her! This blog is about my entry into the love-of-my-life’s world (sorry, Rachel Ray) and my struggle to become half the computer geek she is. Wish me luck!

Tom