What is this all about?

(pensively uttering,...
as I carefully,...cautiously,...yet enthusiastically...
venture into the binary realm of glass and light.)

Now I don't profess to be a techie guru,
though I may have brought the networks to you,
And all this blogging is for me still too new...

But I'm giving it a shot, sooo...Yahoo!

[ I used to work for MCI Worldcom Inc., long before any of us had ever even heard of Ebay, Blogs, Google or Youtube.com.

I did not even own a computer at the time, yet I was busy designing the networks of our highest-billing "global" customers in Northern California and the entire Pacific Northwest (ie: VISA, Bechtel, Halliburton, Coldwater Creek, Macy's, Chrysler, etc....you name 'em...we did 'em...I'm sure you've heard of all of them).

Frame-Relay, ISDN, DSL and DS-1's were "state-of-the art" back then, and I didn't even understand what "packet-switching" was...(as per Adult Learning Theory,...I was "Competently Incompetent"....I knew what I didn't know).

I was then solicited by the training department , as a "subject-matter expert" to develop the entire Circuit Provisioning curriculum for the company, to include writing five technical manuals on Telephony, theory, products, services, processes and procedures. So, I spent the next three years living out of suitcases and hotel rooms, as a traveling Instructor, delivering classroom instruction to over 500 network engineers from California, to Denver, to St. Louis, to the Washington D.C. area, to Raleigh-Durham, and of course, my favorite, the wonderfully beautiful, and unforgettable city of....Atlanta, Georgia. These were undoubtedly the best, and most memorable years of my career life...thus far.

Thanks so much to my manager at that time--Lisa Simpson!!! (and no,..not the one from the cartoon show...)

Then, we all got laid-off in the largest bankruptcy ($32 billion) in American Business History up until that time (July, 2002)....exactly one year after the Enron escapade.]

Soooo...I think it's finally time, I start to get system-savvy.

Hope you enjoy!!!