An introduction, and welcome to BayDad
Hello! Welcome to my first post on BayDad!
I’m Steve, your friendly author and local sysadmin. I live, work, and raise my family in Mountain View, CA. I’m a software engineer for a well-known technology company, and I’ve worked on software for video systems for over a decade. (Yikes!)
What I’m newest at is being a father, and particularly, being a father in the Bay Area. I think this area has some unique challenges and opportunities for fathers, but when I set out to find a blog that was specifically about being a dad in the bay, I couldn’t find anything!
So, here we are, with an install of WordPress, a 1U server from PixelUSA hosted by Layer42 running Ubuntu 7.10 (no, I haven’t upgraded to 8.04LTS yet), and a cute DNS name registered with godaddy. You get the idea? I’m a dad, and I’m a geek, and these two things aren’t at all opposed.
My son just had his 14-month birthday (no, we didn’t actually celebrate this), and he’s super-cute, and I feel as though we’ve just now got this whole parenting thing under control (time to add more chaos, right?). I’ll be posting more pictures & galleries of his progress in the future.
So, to wrap up, I started this blog as a place for Bay Area dads to read & comment & discuss everything about being a techie-geek dad. I think there are really a lot of special & different things about raising a family here, so I think we’ll have a lot to talk about!
Looking for you we came across this website. We were wondering how Steve, Isaac and Andrea are all doing. We like your perspective on parenting. We hope other dads will participate.