TanyaCharbury
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Hello,
... from a small town near Lake Tahoe, about 60 miles east of Reno, about 3 hours' drive to Burning Man site in the Black Rock Desert, and about 400 miles north of Las Vegas. Sadly, we do have cold & wet winters with snow. Sometimes it gets down to -12 Celsius which is very much not the toasty stereotype most people think of when they read "Nevada."
This little town and the immediately surrounding area has about 25,000 residents, and is part of Churchill County (not named after Sir Winston, much as I admire him) which has a population density of almost nothing. The county is more than 5000 square miles in size, and the main road through it is highway 50, appropriately named "The Loneliest Road in America." This is cowboy country, as in cattle ranching is one of the main industries, and the Pony Express ran past here when it was in operation. The low population density has a practical appeal so there's a huge Naval Air Station just a few miles out of town, and just over a decade after the 1980s Top Gun movie was made, the actual Navy for-real Top Gun relocated from Miramar to Fallon, and they've been here ever since. So sometimes when I'm outside, there's a massive roar and I see one or more F/A-18 planes flying around above.
I manage my own little software development business, and I've been into MS Access since version 1.1. back in the mid-1980s. I developed my own framework, and since the late 1990s I've specialized in making custom applications using that framework. It's been used for probably a hundred projects by now, most notably several at Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley, and one at Philips in Silicon Valley. Ever since the early 2000s I've specialized in integrating MS Access with a MS SQL Server back end, not just for data storage but also for functionality such as calling user-defined T-SQL functions and stored procedures.
I enjoy being detail-oriented and although I've not been diagnosed, I might well be somewhere on the autism spectrum, which I conclude based on how relatively well I deal with complex technical concepts and how very badly I dealt with typical social dynamics, when I was growing up and as a young adult. By now I've learned how to respond to most social cues so I can generally run a good enough virtualization that I can function OK in polite society.
I grew up in South Africa, France, Germany and the U.K. (specifically Oxford) and so I speak Afrikaans, French, German and English.
I like windsurfing, surfing, small-boat sailing and snorkeling. I also enjoy classic cars, such as 1980s BMWs and Mercedes-Benz vehicles. I own a few; hardly any of them run.
I tend to milk old technology for all that it's worth; some of my production databases are still in 16-bit Access 2.0 -- and yes, 1994 was a long time ago, I know. Consistent with that mindset, the Audi I drive is a 2000 Audi Quattro A6 4.2 V8 and it's blazingly fast, and out here in the middle of nowhere, there's a lot of opportunity to drive quickly. I have some paperwork to prove my 100 mph transit on occasion, issued by the local Nevada Highway Patrol with a candid request that I contribute to the State coffers.
I live financially humbly but happily, and enjoy working in MS Access. I'm glad I found this forum. I did so while investigating a security-related issue, and some posts by Galaxiom impressed me so much that I decided to join.
Thank you for having me.
~Tanya
... from a small town near Lake Tahoe, about 60 miles east of Reno, about 3 hours' drive to Burning Man site in the Black Rock Desert, and about 400 miles north of Las Vegas. Sadly, we do have cold & wet winters with snow. Sometimes it gets down to -12 Celsius which is very much not the toasty stereotype most people think of when they read "Nevada."
This little town and the immediately surrounding area has about 25,000 residents, and is part of Churchill County (not named after Sir Winston, much as I admire him) which has a population density of almost nothing. The county is more than 5000 square miles in size, and the main road through it is highway 50, appropriately named "The Loneliest Road in America." This is cowboy country, as in cattle ranching is one of the main industries, and the Pony Express ran past here when it was in operation. The low population density has a practical appeal so there's a huge Naval Air Station just a few miles out of town, and just over a decade after the 1980s Top Gun movie was made, the actual Navy for-real Top Gun relocated from Miramar to Fallon, and they've been here ever since. So sometimes when I'm outside, there's a massive roar and I see one or more F/A-18 planes flying around above.
I manage my own little software development business, and I've been into MS Access since version 1.1. back in the mid-1980s. I developed my own framework, and since the late 1990s I've specialized in making custom applications using that framework. It's been used for probably a hundred projects by now, most notably several at Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley, and one at Philips in Silicon Valley. Ever since the early 2000s I've specialized in integrating MS Access with a MS SQL Server back end, not just for data storage but also for functionality such as calling user-defined T-SQL functions and stored procedures.
I enjoy being detail-oriented and although I've not been diagnosed, I might well be somewhere on the autism spectrum, which I conclude based on how relatively well I deal with complex technical concepts and how very badly I dealt with typical social dynamics, when I was growing up and as a young adult. By now I've learned how to respond to most social cues so I can generally run a good enough virtualization that I can function OK in polite society.
I grew up in South Africa, France, Germany and the U.K. (specifically Oxford) and so I speak Afrikaans, French, German and English.
I like windsurfing, surfing, small-boat sailing and snorkeling. I also enjoy classic cars, such as 1980s BMWs and Mercedes-Benz vehicles. I own a few; hardly any of them run.
I tend to milk old technology for all that it's worth; some of my production databases are still in 16-bit Access 2.0 -- and yes, 1994 was a long time ago, I know. Consistent with that mindset, the Audi I drive is a 2000 Audi Quattro A6 4.2 V8 and it's blazingly fast, and out here in the middle of nowhere, there's a lot of opportunity to drive quickly. I have some paperwork to prove my 100 mph transit on occasion, issued by the local Nevada Highway Patrol with a candid request that I contribute to the State coffers.
I live financially humbly but happily, and enjoy working in MS Access. I'm glad I found this forum. I did so while investigating a security-related issue, and some posts by Galaxiom impressed me so much that I decided to join.
Thank you for having me.
~Tanya
