I Married The Absent Minded Professor

April 03, 2005 I Married The Absent Minded Professor My husband has started a blog. I did encourage him and am very glad he found the motivation and followed suit. I think the comment I made was along the lines of: "You should start a blog." "Why?" "Just because," pause, "you don't really do any of the average things most geeks do," followed by laughter. A couple days later he surprised me when I found him making an entry in a blogspot account. "Why are you using blogspot?" "I thought it might be interesting to write about things, repairs to the buildings and things we discover about old houses. Someone might be interested." "I think it is a great idea. But why don't you just install Movable Type on your website?" "What website? I have a website?" "The one I paid for as your Thanksgiving present..." "Oh ... where is it?" Followed by my search for all the account info. Somedays I feel as if I am actually married to The Absent Minded Professor. He can be so smart, yet so dumb at the same time! Actually installing Movable Type and getting it to work was another thing. He wanted to use SSH and had to use Leech to upload all the files, which is far below his standards. He is CommandLineGuy with no time for other ways of accomplishing the same result. I know HE was frustrated with ME! He ended up deleting everything he had uploaded and started all over again with my "guidance". I think he is so accustomed to development he just skims through things and doesn't follow instructions. It took a not-so-geeky-girl approach to get him up and running. Anywho, back to the purpose of this post... I love to read what he writes. It doesn't make any difference what the subject is. I like hearing the voice of his writing. I like the way he chooses his words. I like his style. I like discovering the little things he doesn't always say out loud. I like reading the small details of his plans for our farm and outbuildings. I like his humor, dry at times, geeky, too, and sometimes grade school boyish. How his brain works is completely sexy. Posted by Angie at 04:11 AM | Comments (0)