Becoming a blogger...

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Welcome to my new blog!  I was inspired the past week to start writing by Carl Webster's talk at the CUGC XL event in Milwaukee, WI where he talked about how he got started and became a mainstay in the Citrix community (earning him a Lifetime achievement award)!

Who knows at this point what this blog will become, but I see it as a way of posting and sharing the internal research and projects I'm working on as a head of IT at a medium size architectural firm in Indianapolis and maybe even some of my personal projects.  That could include anything from Architectural Software (Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rendering, etc), Citrix Software, Microsoft Solutions, or anything else that I deal with on a daily basis in my job.  I'm also big into home automation and IoT at home where my house has become a digital playground of devices.

Hopefully my musing and research is helpful to others and maybe eventually becomes a place to turn to for information or discussion!

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