Perhaps I'm not as geeky as some, but to most in my family and friend's circle…I'm a geek. I love Google. I love my iPhone. I love apps. I love Excel. I love weather maps. Yep…you read that correctly. I love weather maps. I LOVE WEATHER MAPS! Specifically I love the SREF Plume viewer (Google it…scroll down to the map, choose the closest dot to your town, then look at the different graphs (buttons at the top of the page). Pretty sweet, heh?!? I don't know the definition of a cumulous cloud but I can Google it. Then I can see one, email it to a local weatherman, and see it on the interwebs (thats mother-in-law speak for Facebook). And I couldn't tell you what NAM stands for but if WxSouth says the NAM can predict upper lows the best, then I believe it will snow on Wednesday.
Anyhoo, I may not know a lot but I know enough to be dangerous. Seriously…I have a blog for Pete's sake (sorry again, Pete). Often coworkers and family ask me about how to do something in Word or Excel. I may have an idea but when in doubt…Google it. Seriously. You can Google anything these days. (You can also Bing but I'm a Google girl). No lie, when I first explained the Internet to my parents, I asked them to search for any subject. My Mom (sorry Mom), said "boogers". So I entered "boogers" in my, ahem, Prodigy search bar and lo' and behold, somebody had a website dedicated to boogers. My Mom about died! I about puked. But I digress.
Where was I, oh yeah, I'm a geek. And I dare say there's a little bit of geek in all of us. If you consider the definition of geek as eccentric or non-mainstream people, then yes, I believe we're all geeks. Not everyone likes to read, or cook, or play the tuba, etc. So come on, embrace you're inner geek. Tell me what you do that makes you a geek?
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