Sounds great. I hope she can work it out.

Me too, Renea has had some success with Oz magazines/publishers, and one or two U.S. mags have featured a couple of her articles/works, but to actually make it big there in person would be the ultimate feather in her cap.

If I had just one fifth of her talent, knowledge and expertise, I'd proudly call myself the consumate PC geek....that's how highly I regard her computing abilities. When I was building my wife's computer and got stuck on something, Renea came to my rescue and was always able to help me resolve it...like when I was unsure about connecting the leads from the front panel to the mobo. Renea talked me through it over the phone with consumate ease...trouble was, the consumate ease didn't translate to my end. With big clumsy hands/fingers and needing a new script for my glasses, the task took much longer than it should have (normally speaking), but not to worry, between us we got it right in the end.

And if Renea can work it out, I'm wondering if a dramatic weight loss would allow me to stow away in one of her suitcases....cos I'd dearly love to visit the U.S. of A myself.

Obviously female computer geeks exist. Gaming girls exist too. We seem to be rare, but they're out there. I'm one of them. Just graduated with a BA in game design and I love gadgets and technology. I like console games better than computer games, but that's just personal preference. Kotor rocked my world! I am also self taught, it's just a drive to want to know more.

Well if my Computer Progamming Class at universtiy is anything to go by then they do exist. Heck 90% of the class is female

Orright, seeing as how we've established there are such creatures a female computer geeks....is there such an animal as a male washing, ironing and cooking geek?

We now know Fuzzy logic isn't one, but how many of you are snag enough to admit yer does the dishes n' the laundry?

Okay, I'll start: I cook; clean; dust; do laundry; sewing; vaccuum cleaning and even get down on my knees to clean the toilet....however, I draw the line at knitting baby clothes for the grandkids.

Okay, I'll start: I cook; clean; dust; do laundry; sewing; vaccuum cleaning and even get down on my knees to clean the toilet....however, I draw the line at knitting baby clothes for the grandkids.

I do all the above as well... will see about knitting baby clothes when I get one

My wife says I am a good husband and father. I do as I am asked/told/hinted towards.

I guess that makes me pretty successful.

I do all the above as well... will see about knitting baby clothes when I get one

Ha, and when you find you're lacking the coordination, have the clumsiest fingers and keep dropping stitches left, right and centre, you'll give the wife the money to go out and buy 'em instead....trust me Believe me, I gave it my best shot (about two or three rows in about four or five hours), but common sense prevailed and I/we patronised a baby boutique instead.

I do as I am asked/told/hinted towards.

Yeah, me too....unless I want a good spanking (but that goes both ways)

What never ceases to amaze me, though, is the sensitive new age guy who'll cook, clean and wash, etc....you know, the do anything for the love of his life type of bloke, but when she asks him to slip down the store to purchase some female hygiene products, suddenly he's the macho mechanic type, who suddenly dives under the car and says: "Sorry love, just found a real bad transmission problem, you'll have to go get them yourself"

You can spot this type of bloke in the supermarket, he's the one prowling up and down the relevant aisle, picking up and examining every product except the one he's there for....and if he doesn't have/find a female accomplice to do the deed for him, he waits until right on closing time and hopes the clerk is too busy tallying the till to notice him.

Personally, I never got embarrassed...that was until they switched from paper to plastic bags....found it too hard to breath in them. Pity there was no on-line shopping back in those days....

Single dad. We do it all.  
Try shopping in the "Incontinence" aisle for real humility
...disposable diapers for old-timers.   

Single dad. We do it all.

I was a single dad...first wife decided motherhood wasn't for her after the birth of our second child and took off, leaving me holding the baby, literally. My daughter was born 3 months premature and weighed just 2lb 11 oz....was in a humidicrib for the first two months of her life and I took her home a month afterwards. Yeah, so I know all about being a single dad, had a four year old son at the time as well, and raised them practically on my own....had a lady friend for a while but motherhood wasn't for her either.

Try shopping in the "Incontinence" aisle

Did that as well! My mother asked me to assist her in taking my father out of a nursing home that was mistreating him, so I left my current family for 11 months to help her care for him at home. It wasn't the easiest of times, but I was able to share some wonderful, as well as embarrassing times with my father before he died. Apart from the incontinence pad shopping, I had other moments when I wished that I had a paper bag to cover my face. Dad suffered with vascular disease related dementia and would sometimes say and/or do the funniest of things in public which quite often made me feel like I had a red face all the way down to my toes....but I wouldn't have missed a single moment of it for the world. What was embarrassing then are now cherished memories of a sweet man who returned to his childhood innocence and enjoyed life until he quietly passed away in his sleep. Fortunately, dad's dementia made him oblivious to the fact he was ill, and he was a tough old nut to go with it, so there was no pain or distress and he peacefully slipped away, for which I'm truly thankful.

So yeah, for two thirds of my life, I've been both mother and father, chief cook and bottle washer, a nurse and diaper changer, often a father confessor, so maybe my next challenge could be just kickin' back and chilling out for a while....if the wife says it's okay.

hey. i just thought id post a reply, because i am a total geek. i love computers, any os.. especially linux.. (mandrake!).. hmm.. i am a total gamer... css, d&d games.. so i guess im not the only one.. that sucks. haha. and i am told i am "smokin". hmm yupp. that would be all. i geeks...


m. kay

I'm not much for gaming on accounta the arthritis......typing...for me.....everytime I do it without totally screwing up.......is paramount to winning an olympic medal

I try to think logically....but you dang kids got it waaaaaaay over me......I'm more into wandering around in lala land......taking pictures of pretty stuff and thinking I'm a contender.....

games????????? naw.....too old too slow too stiff

wish I could?

you betcha

gal?????? YES........and I still remember the first time somebody at the corner store called me ma'am instead of miss

dang it all anyway lol

yer the hope of the future
you know that, don't you?

footsie  

i would be happy to just find a girl who enjoys using the computer and has fun doing it

well said footsie i too enjoy just surfing and having fun on the puter games are for the younger generation these days

Me? (Oh, and though my nickname says "eddy", I am a female) Lol Got dual screens hooked up to my computer, install my own RAM and cards whenever I need to. Run PC health checks every so often (especially now that my computer has been acting up..)

And let's just say I enjoy modifying EVERYTHING. MSN has been modded with extensions like crazy, plus I got all the stuff like iconpackager, windowblinds, and some program called Fly A Kite OSX (makes a windows system have a GUI resembling the Mac OS X).

just kickin' back and chilling out for a while....

lol. I get to do that after I drop the kids off at school...