WOW! I’m so excited to join the Dad-O-Matic community. I just wanted to introduce myself in my first blog over here. I guess I share two things in common with everyone on this blog. I’m a Dad and I’m a bit of geek. I guess I’ll start with the Dad stuff and then cover the geek stuff.

I first became a dad Seven Years ago when we lost our first child at 22 weeks. I only mention that because the article I wrote on that experience won me the 2009 East Cobber Father of the Year. In the seven years since we lost that first child I have had three more. The oldest Haley has Cerebral Palsy and was the inspiration for me to start blogging regularly. My second child Abby is 3 and is an absolute trouble maker. The other day she made up the song:

Wiggle your tushy all day long.
wiggle your tushy sing a song.
wiggle your tushy go outside and play.
wiggle your tushy its a beautiful day.

And now I have a 10 week old boy named Issac. As I mentioned Haley inspired my first consistent blog MySpellingSucks.com an unedited discussion about my ADD and Dyslexia and my daughters CP. I generally cover topics about how my disability helps me in raising a child with a disability but I also cover inspirational stories about folks with disabilities and just Dad/parenting stuff in general. I even started The DADvocate Project this past Thanks Giving.

The DADvocate Project is a project to write a book about dads by dads. We’ve created a survey that covers family, fun, work, finances, religion, time spent with kids and family, how often you have sex with your wife, do you have tattoos, have you done recreational drugs etc. We cover the gambit. We are then going to interview a subset of the dads and look for interesting correlation in the data to put together the book. Ideally we’ll have stories about ,what you were like in college and high school, how you developed as a person and how kids changed you. We’ll go deep and it will be fun. The DADvocate Project is currently hosted at the MySPellingSucks.com website but can be reached through TheDADvocateProject.com We certainly can use more entries so come help us reach 1000 entries now.

Finally as I said I’m a geek. I finally convinced my dad when I was eleven to buy a computer. It was 1986 and we bought an Apple IIc. I still love that thing and wish we had kept it. I bought a programming book and wrote a down hill ski program that had two lower case l’s as skis and they were maneuvered by the arrow keys through the * trees. I also was absolutely obsessed with the game Lemonade stand.  Thus was born my profession as a business analyst, half in computers and half in business. Today they call me a Business Systems Architect and I’ve held a number of titles over the year but I’m basically always doing the same thing helping the business find answers for how to make more money, and do it better, faster, cheaper with technology. I do it professionally for larger corporations and I like to help smaller companies with it too on the side. I love technology and I love educating people on it’s use. Therefor I only occasionally cover complicated topics because I want the small business owners who read my site to be able to implement the free and cheap tools available to them to help optimize their business.  If you are interested in this blog you should check it out over at MetzgerBusiness.com .

I’d love to know more about each of you, who read this blog. Tell me about yourself and your kids and how you got into technology.