About Me

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Hi, I'm Martha. I was born in 1951, a baby boomer, and grew up in the San Franciso Bay area in California. I went to the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Georg August Univeritat in Gottingen, Germany. One of the first internet nodes was at UCSB, but I was totally unaware of it. No computer classes were offered back in 1969 when I started college. When my brother first mentioned the word "computer" to me in 1974 I had to ask him what that was. There were mainframes back then, but I think PC's were just in their toy stage. I enrolled in the Control Data Institute in San Francisco to learn programming. Little did I know that I would take my Environmental Studies degree, add 20 years of computer programming and end up being a computer systems project manager and environmental protection specialist at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters in Washington DC. Go figure. Get an education; it will lead you places you could never go without it.

My personal interests are bird watching, enjoying animals of all kinds, science fiction writing, atheism, National Parks, and gardening. I served four years in the Army. I maintain a wild cat colony living in the forest behind my current home in Accokeek, Maryland.

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