sottwell

Greetings, all.

I'm a grandma, from California, West Texas, Connecticut, and Miami, and live in southern Israel now. Kind of reminds me of small-town West Texas!

I've been playing around with computers since around 1992; my father and my first husband both didn't think computers were worth bothering with, and certainly not for girls, anyway. Well, I'm here, and they are both still there...

I've run a BBS with CDs of shareware online for download, was "Dean" of the Imagination Network's "Online University", did consulting in Miami, worked as a tech in a tiny little shop in Netanya, Israel, started my own lab/shop, and worked for Dealtime.com for a while.

Now I'm living in a tiny desert town south of Beer Sheva, playing with PHP and looking for a good CMS or whatever to base my Web design business on. Well, the business I hope to have anyway. ModX is the greatest thing since sliced bread, although I've never much cared for sliced bread (yes, I do remember the day the bread truck came through the neighborhood flying ribbons and banners and announcing sliced bread through a loudspeaker...).

Graphics is my weakest point, although I'm spending time working with GIMP tutorials, and can do backgrounds for 3D bars and reasonably nice fades for backgrounds.

My site http://www.sottwell.com is usually in a state of wild disarray, and http://www.jewishyou.com is beginning to finally take shape, at least on paper.

Welcome to the Forums,

Hope you will enjoy your stay with us...

Regards,

zi

Cool man! Hope you have fun

Do you know Krav Maga?

Do you know Krav Maga?

No, I'm afraid that I'm more the whack-em-with-a-frying-pan type. I prefer cast iron, although I did get a very nice heavy steel flat griddle from a friend in England for cooking chapati (Indian flat bread). Jumpin' Jack Flash (Whoopi Goldberg) is one of my favorite movies.

I'm a grandma, from California, West Texas, Connecticut, and Miami, and live in southern Israel now. Kind of reminds me of small-town West Texas!

West Texas, eh? What part? I'm currently residing in San Angelo, in the heart of West Texas. I miss the mountains and forests, and plentiful amounts of water sometimes, but it's not a bad place to be. :wink:

Late Welcome

hehe, water?
We recorded 6 meters (metres) of snow this year. :roll:

Anybody need some?

Lubbock. My first husband was from there, and although his Navy service kept us in Connecticut, and then his job for Pfizer kept us there, we often visited, and I did live in Lubbock for several months at a time while he was out to sea. Two of my children have moved to Lubbock; the middle one still lives in Connecticut. He's the one that was born "on the road" in a motel in Zanesville, Ohio.

I grew up in northeastern California, in and around Susanville, about 80 miles west of Reno, Nevada. I hated Connecticut; after the mountains I grew up in the silly little hills they call mountains on the east coast were boring, and all the trees are dead half the time. We were just south of the "snow line" in Norwich, so mostly we just got nasty slush and sleetstorms all winter. I never spent enough time in Lubbock to get so used to all that flat country that it became boring.

Where I am now is in relatively high desert country in the Negev desert between Beer Sheva and Elat (on the Red Sea). It gets chilly, but never quite freezes here. It's very dry, and almost always sunny and warm in sheltered corners away from the wind in winter and downright dangerously hot in the summer. Today, for example, is windy and mildly cool, but sunny, while a hundred miles or so north, my partner tells me that it is raining. The country is spectacular; Mizpeh Ramon (Mizpeh is Hebrew for overlook or outlook) is built right on the edge of the Ramon Crater, and I spend a lot of time out hiking in the desert.

The image below reminded me of you, have it as an ICO file too

If anybody is interested, you can see where I live on Google Maps. Use the "Satellite" or "Hybrid", and zoom at the 9th or 10th level down into the center of the bottom half of Israel (halfway between the bottom of the West Bank and the Red Sea). You’ll see what looks like a black dot, just about at that halfway point. It’s actually a cinder cone in the Ramon Crater. Center on that, and continue zooming in to around the fifth or sixth level. Just to the west of the cinder cone you’ll see Mizpeh Ramon, right on the north edge of the crater. My apartment is pretty much in the middle of "town"; you can’t zoom in that close.

"Mizpeh" (the Z is pronounced like the ZZ in pizza) means overlook or lookout.

The squiggly looking road to the east of town is actually zig-zagging down the wall of the crater. The part of the crater wall that juts out to the east of the cinder cone is called "Shin Ramon", "shin" is Hebrew for "tooth".

Don’t ask me who Ramon was, I have no idea.

the Ramon Crater is one of three similar unique geological formations, all of them in the same general area in Israel.