First Blog Entry - What is this about?

Your DisplayName here! — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:28:48 GMT

My wife and mother in law said I should begin blogging. I don’t know what they are thinking. Most of my family, friends and co-workers know I am the worst at grammar and spelling. My English teacher would laugh at the thought. Well, ill give it a go, as I do have a bit of insomnia. I should start writing down some of these thoughts.

Who am I?

I am from Houston , TX , from a very nice, loving, yet complicated family. I am sure you have heard that before. My father got me interested in computers at an early age. My mother kept me busy with many activities. I am very thankful to my family, as I have gotten to experience a ton.

I moved out to San Francisco after college at University of Texas - Austin . I studied electrical engineering, however, I had a little too much fun water skiing, mtn biking, scuba diving, and web programming, that I went into Web application consulting. Not the hardcore EE. I write software for websites, not chips or digital signal processing. What’s worse? I got a little bit of the wine bug, while out in Northern California , so I write software for a wine company. The #1 online wine retailer, wine.com.

Sounds like an easy job, but its not. After prohibition, the states were left to maker their own wine laws. So each state has its own regulations. We have to make sure we comply with all of these crazy laws. We have more warehouses than your typical online retailer, who tries to consolidate. No economy of scale there.

I love to ski. Downhill skis. I still have not snowboarded. Luckily I met a wife, who also loves to ski. We ski allot in the winter at Squaw Valley and Northstar. We love it. I have also gotten my wife into Mtn Biking, my college passion. We ride out of our house on the weekends, across the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Marin Headlands. What could be better than that? I still haven’t gotten her into my new sport, kiteboarding, but she likes to watch from a beach chair.

To cut to the chase, what is this blog about? It will be about the Northern California Experience: Work (c# coding), Wine, Adventure, and Travel. Ill post all of our weekend getaways and links to information about the areas. If anything, it will be a diary our kids and family can read.

Hope you find it a decent read.

Geoff

Geoffrey Smalling - general

First Blog Entry - What is this about?