In True Nerd Style

Welcome back!

I’m a nerd, I’ll admit it.  I like planners, and love to figure out a good problem. It’s called “trouble-shooting” in nerd language.   I like computers, and software, programs and techy stuff.  I come from a total nerd dad, and a art teacher mom so I’m a pretty strange mix when it comes to likes/disklikes.

But, yesterday I was all nerd.  I had a new client request a Wordpress blog install, customization, and a bunch of techy stuff. She also wanted to learn how to do several of the bloggy things we take for granted, so I offered to help.  She asked to be led through on the phone or for me to take screenshots.  I knew you could do the screenshots just wasn’t sure if I needed a nifty new program or it was something my computer could automatically do.  I soon learned with a few tweets that I was good to go.

I explained to her I’d rather do the screen shots, after all talking on the phone around my house consists of a lot of interuptions with a 16 month old and 4 year old in the background.  It is never a pleasant thing.  So, screenshots  were the way to go.

Next I begin running into issues, apparently my computer has a virus, well let’s say it HAD a virus, because in true nerd style I fixed that darn thing.  But, it still ran completely slow, I mean tortoise slow. I get so frustrated with it at one point yesterday I just want to chunk it out the window.

But, I persist and finally though I am working half the night the client’s install is complete and screenshots are made.  I had a blast though.  So, I figure, I’m a nerd because I love this stuff.  I even stayed up a couple more hours tweaking one of my own websites, just for the heck of it.

By the way, if you haven’t heard…..here’s some news about me, one of the many reasons I love the internet.