Week 1...Glitches, nerds and me

This week I was reminded of why I enjoy using and sharing my love of technology with others. There are so many ways look at the technolgy around us. After the first meeting of the second class, the race was on. I told myself that I was going to manage all of my assignments with the grace a dignity befitting a graduate student. I was going work ahead with time to spare. The first glitch in my plan started when I attempted to track down a video I was assigned to watch for class, Triumph of the Nerds.

Every video store I went into said that they didn't have it, with one of the clerks looking at me as if I was a nerd for even asking about that movie. He was kind enough to tell me that the movie is on VHS and not DVD and has three volumes. Let me just say for the record I am not a nerd. I have nothing against nerds, I happen to think that some of the nicest people I have ever met have been...okay that's not coming out correctly. I happen to think that nerds or people who are considered to be nerds are very nice people and our world could not get along very well without them. Back to the original subject, I still could not get my hands on that movie.

As the week went on I encountered other problems that threw a twist in me master plan. My role as my school's technology leader, presented me with a different issue. I came up against a computer glitch that I could not easily overcome. Information that was entered on one screen in a data base was not appearing on the screen to be printed. It took me three days to figure out how to solve the problem, just in the nick of time before school was out for fall intercession. I love the challenges technology presents to me, but I also like being able to go to someone who has more experience than I do to bounce ideas off of when I get stuck. I should not have struggled for three days, next time I will ask for help after two days.