I’ve been ‘Focused On’ by Riko in the past so I won’t rehash my earlier life, you can read it yourself here:
http://vnboards.ign.com/ac_friends/b5258/94454421/p1
Yes, my husband Rick, daughter Aime and I are from Tomah, WI and if you’ve ever traveled up I90-94 to the cities, you’ve driven right past our house. We’re only a quarter mile or so away from the interstate.
We are still motorcycle riders, I have a 2003 Yamaha Royal Star Venture, Midnight black with a trike converson
http://www.wizardsofit.com/2003venture/motortrike.htm that I absolutely love even though our little girl doesn’t give us a lot of time to ride anymore. I took it out for the first time this season last Monday evening when I went to choir practice at church. I don’t think I told anyone there that I ride so there were a lot of pleasantly surprised folks at church when I rode up. My husband has a 2001 Royal Star Venture, red on red but his is on two wheels.
Rick’s parents have a Goldwing they just got converted into a trike (easier on dad’s failing knees) and we go on vacations on our bikes regularly. Before the baby, we used to log about 10,000 miles a year on our motorcycles – it’s a lot less now but we’re looking into getting Rick a sidecar for his. I’ve been a member of WOW (Women on Wheels) for over 10 years now and it’s a wonderful Woman’s motorcycle riding organization. You wouldn’t believe how many crazy women riders there are around the world.
I work for what will soon be known as the Trane Company (again) in their IT department. I have a very odd and interesting job that keeps me busy. I’m a Data Analyst that specializes in application performance problems. That means that if anyone in our company, anywhere in the world has a performance problem and no one can figure it out, they come to our team for diagnosis and troubleshooting. This means that I have to be proficient in operating systems, databases, networks, storage arrays, software acceleration and different methods of system monitoring and a bunch of other stuff. I learn new stuff every day. My current challenges are application performance in France, Brussels, China and Dubai… oh and Detroit, Michigan.
As I mentioned in my previous Focus On, my husband and I work for the same company. He’s a Java developer specializing in data integrations. It’s nice that we can both talk about work and know what the other is talking about. Most people don’t have that combination of interests with their spouse. As a result of being geek married to geek, we have a LOT of computers around the house (at last count 9 but we just got 2 new systems) so our poor daughter has to be raised in the techno geek household. Lol
Aime is 16 months old now and is the center of our life these days. She’s growing so fast and is an extremely intelligent little girl. Here’s a recent picture of her
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a337/silverwuf/Aime%20Rae/DSC00376.jpg If you want to read about the adoption story, here’s a linky:
http://vnboards.ign.com/cb_parenting/b23096/97941247/p1/?11
There’s not much more to tell, I hang out on the Cooking and Parenting boards a lot lately and am very happy to see Hellnhiheels posting again because I collect all her recipes. I post a bit here and there on ACF but am really not one of the most ‘fluent’ posters around. I keep busier than I’d like to be, still play AC on Frostfell but recently unsubbed my COH account and I have recently gotten back to playing my guitar for the first time since Aime was born.
If you have any questions, ask away. While I’m around, I’d be glad to answer them. Vacation officially starts at 3:30 Central today!!!! We’re driving to South Carolina to visit my mom. Rick’s parents are coming with us so it should be a blast!
Please excuse my endless babbling...
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