Who am I?  Although I often ask myself that same question, I have some details that provide an answer to those asking the question from a higher level.

I grew up in a suburb of Washington DC.  My dad worked for the Fed. Government, and our daily newspaper carried more politics and international news in one day than some newspapers write about in a year.  So, naturally, when I finished high school I went on to study Political Science at a small state college.  Following my graduation I spent nearly ten years working on Capital Hill.  I call those my "public service" years.  At that time computers were becoming more and more prevalant, and I found myself spending as much time managing fledgling networks as I was working on legislative matters.  In the end I grew tired of the commute and the low pay and left politics for the corporate IT world.  I have used my programming and administrative skills to work in many different areas of IT at several different companies.  I am now employed by a large hospitality company where I work in the Information Resources department.  I still enjoy politics and I am an unabashed liberal. 

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 This is fun.  States I've visited are in red, states I've been meaning to visit in white.

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 And let's not leave out the rest of the world.  Lots of unshaded countries that I intend to visit.

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