About Me

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Hi, I'm Martha. I was born in 1951, a baby boomer, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in California. I graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).  One of the first internet nodes was at UCSB, but 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. That year I enrolled in the Control Data Institute in San Francisco to learn computer programming. Little did I know that I would take my Environmental Studies degree, add 15 years of computer programming, and end up being a computer systems project manager, environmental protection specialist, and resource manager at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Headquarters in Washington DC, retiring in 2008. 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, secular humanism, National Parks, and gardening. I served four years in the Army. 

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