The joy of learning new things

This last few weeks have been quite busy. We had several guests in and out, sometimes within hours of each other. All good things, but combined with all the 'normal' things going on, it has been pretty hectic.

In the midst of all that, I have learned once again the joy of picking up a new skill or talent or being able to do something you did not know how to do even a few weeks ago. For me, this has come in the area of software.

We are working on some software projects and in the course of this I have been working as a kind of bridge between the techies and the non-techies. A translator of sorts. Take the techno-babble of the development team and put it into normal-man-speak. Or vice versa. In the process I have learned even more (this part I already knew for the most part) how things that seem easy can often times be the hardest to accomplish and the hardest things can sometimes be easy. That, and even one misplaced character in the code and it all goes caflooie (ka-flew-ee).

One of the newly acquired skills I have picked up is being able to actually read the code behind software and with reasonable accuracy be able to tell not only what it does,but also to see where it is wrong if it is not working. If I had to write it from scratch I could not . . . . .yet. But I can take fuctionality that works in one place and make it work in others even when there is a reasonable amount of adaptation needed. The scary thing for me is that is it actually fun at times. I already spend enough time with my computer, so I hope this does not turn into a hobby.