Introduction

This is the reason my blog even exists. I am enrolled in CDE CIOS 256 and my teacher is forcing me to enter into what I perceived to be a teenage "thing". However, when reading my "Good Housekeeping" from my Mom tonight, I noticed that at the back there was a blog written by an adult male. He wrote about rollerskating with his son and told us what a hot wife he had. He also talked about touching boobs. I wondered why was this even in my magazine!!!

Therefore, back to the subject. I do not have any web design experience since 1998. Yes, you read that right. I had my first child then. I made him a snazzy web site--with a slide show to show off how cute he was. Then I had more children and no longer cared about playing around with the web for a long, long time...

...fast forward to 2008....

I am taking this class because I went to work last year for five months as an analyst/programmer for the State of Alaska. I was assigned nasty MS Access Visual Basic (Barfic) programming across multiple versions of Windows. Nobody should have to be put through that torture. My babysitter quit and now I am a stay at home mom who would like to play around with web programming.

Before my babysitter quit, I was allowed to venture into Java for brief periods of time. I was given Eclipse to use and had to write HTML code by hand! I knew something was wrong. I found NetBeans and life seemed better.

That is why I am taking this class today, so I can check out the cool new web development tools (and get a new computer in the process). I have no formal web development training, so I'm hoping this will be a good introduction.

Rain

And cold. However Grandpa arrived today! We did try out something from my list...we met Senator Ted Stevens at Pioneer Park.

May 27th, 2008

Wowsers. I am going to have to tell EVERYBODY that I now blog.

I would like to learn more about what to do around Fairbanks, Alaska. Hence, my blog name.


My Fairbanks list:

1. I can go plant flowers at UAF from 9-noon and bum a free lunch.
2. And if I'm feeling extra cheap I can head to Pioneer Park to celebrate Alaska's 50th anniversary of statehood and bum a free dinner too from 5:30-8:30! Dermot is a great guy and I highly recommend reading his articles in the paper.
3. Library times: Tuesdays (day programs) and Thursdays (evening programs.

My List list:

1. I have four kids, so I should pay a bit of attention to them too. Don't worry. They aren't neglected. Daddy's home while I'm playing on the computer.
2. Tell everybody that I now have a blog.
3. Make Grandma and Grandpa happy.
4. Oh, and I signed up for two classes at UAF's CDE. Perhaps I should work on those classes a bit too...wait, that's what I'm doing right now!