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Making my #introduction as part of the #TwitterMigration. I live in rural Northern California and work in BizDev for #RenewableEnergy, formerly in #SofwareDevelopment. I have a master’s degree in #Library and #InformationScience #MLIS. I love #reading #books of all kinds and dabble in #writing. I also devote a lot of time to #gardening #baking and #baseball. I have three bossy #cats (now 4!) and one very opinionated #dog and love #wildlife and animals of all kinds.
@owlislost Do you min if I ask what part of rural Nor Cal you're in? You may decline, no problem, it's just I was raised in the Sacramento Valley and spent a good deal of my childhood in Humboldt. Then I lived in the Bay Area but would travel up to Mendocino and also back to the Sacramento area. In Seattle now, but the area still holds a lot of meaning for me.
@colorblindcowboy Not at all! I live in Mendocino County. Our slogan is supposed to be “Wine, Waves, and Wilderness” but it’s really more like “Wine, Weed, and Wildfires”
@owlislost Oh, right on. My grandfather worked in the logging industry up there as a "whistle punk." My great grandfather was rather important in the Masonic Lodge there in Mendocino and taught high school in Boonville. My partner lived in many places around there as a child.
@colorblindcowboy I love Boonville. The history of the Boontling dialect is fascinating. I hadn’t been familiar with the term “whistle punk” before you mentioned it! I’m surprised I hadn’t heard it before!
@owlislost I think it's an obsolete position, but apparently it was an entry level position that (I believe) involved signaling when new logs were coming down.
It sounds like a silly musical sub genre tho.
@colorblindcowboy When I looked it up I realized I’ve heard descriptions of the role but either I never caught the term or it wasn’t mentioned
@owlislost Hello from a fellow (former) librarian!
@alliematt Hello, hello! Great to connect!
@owlislost I wish you well with your library degree! Love it. 
@MargaretSefton Thank you!
@owlislost welcome! This is a good place to be.
some people love hashtags. But I think that it's following people that makes the difference.
When I see someone posting interesting stuff, I tap on their avatar/picture left of their address at the top of the post. This takes me to their profile/"home page", where I read about them and see some of their posts. If they look interesting, I can follow them on that page. Following lots of people gets you a community. You can unfollow someone later.
@johnb48 Thank you :) I’ve actually been here quite a while but I will pass on your good advice!
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