How I Know I'm A Nerd

 

I know I'm a nerd for one simple fact. I think spreadsheets and databases are beautiful. I love them for their simplicity. I love them for their practicality. I love them for their logic. I love them because I get them because they get me. Once another lifetime ago, when I was a girl coder building databases for a living and on a heavy project at my full-time gig and then building databases for our consulting business and then building even more databases for my own personal projects, I had a dream where I *was* a database and I woke up totally getting it. It's the only time in my entire life I have ever felt truly organized. And, in a sense, in control of my past, present and future.

If only life could be a database, I'd muse--even then. Then everything would make perfect sense!

Unfortunately, life is that interminable bug that never finds a genuine fix, and we just keep finding workarounds. That's the place I find myself in these days, but I've been on a paper journaling kick lately and have been exploring a lot of old topics that used to excite me that I have abandoned over the years due to health, time constraints or things that just fell off my radar with the passage of time. We are about to kick our consulting business into high gear again, and I am behind the curve on database development now instead of on the cutting edge, so I'm thinking of taking some coursework to brush up on my skills so I can get our business launched again in this new world of AI.

But, it also got me thinking that maybe I could get organized in real life by putting my real life into a spreadsheet or database. If I saw my clutter in data sets rather than the overwhelming stacks in closets and my junk room and garage, would that help since I used to speak fluent database? I am admittedly a little rusty, but I don't think it would take too long to brush up.