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[jalpert]

Thanks for all of the welcome messages. I guess it is about time I told you who I am.

My name is Jo Ann and I was born and raised in Tennessee. I was a mainframe programmer for 20 something years when I decided to become a contract programmer. I landed my first contracting job outside of Tampa, Florida in 1996. It was supposed to be a 6 month contract but they kept me for 7 years. Since I didn't know anyone in Florida, my computer became my best friend and my life-line to stay in touch with family and friends.

I became interested in graphic design and web design so I started my own company. My daughter and son-in-law became interested since the entire house was filled with servers. They moved to Florida with me and attended school so that they could learn all about web design. They graduated and moved on to great things with their skills. My son-in-law is the lead graphic designer for many well known websites and my daughter followed in my footsteps and went the programming route. I'm proud to have had a part in contributing to their successful careers. They recently had a baby so I've been blessed with my first grandchild.

I got married 4 years ago to a guy that I met online. He lived in Missouri so I moved here 6 years ago since all of my contract programming jobs were done remotely and I could do my web design from anywhere. He is also from the IT world and is considered by many to be a linux guru. Together we started a new business 5 years ago manufacturing bullets. We do all of our own web hosting and maintenance of the online store for the business ourselves. It became very successful so we both quit our full-time IT jobs 2 years ago. We now have 3 full-time employees so the business keeps us busy.

My computer is the only Windows machine in the house. I found Smartest Computing through Broni since he helped me clean up a virus on my computer a few months ago.

[frazzm737]

We are glad you have joined us and hope you will enjoy our forum.

[rokytnji]

Howdy and Welcome

[PeggyB]

Hello jalbert, nice to meet you. Hope you enjoy your stay with us and join right in, we love to pick brains around here..lol

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[djhoeft]

Fran dragged my butt back here with a birthday greeting, so thought I'd better peruse the forums while I was here. Welcome to SC! The folks here have saved my bacon more than once. I think I was so grateful once, I offered Broni $1,000,00 in cash or a check - thank heavens he declined!

I also live in Missouri, so nice to see someone here from the state! Might have to check out your website - it's getting harder to find shells for my 303 British rifle that I use for deer hunting!

[frazzm737]

Welcome back, old friend! Glad to see my Birthday greetings have brought you back for a visit. If you are still feeling so generous, we now have a donate button located at the top of the page. LOL! I hope you will have a great Birthday!

[Berton]

djhoeft, on 14 September 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:

I also live in Missouri, so nice to see someone here from the state! Might have to check out your website - it's getting harder to find shells for my 303 British rifle that I use for deer hunting!

I'm from Kansas, brother-in-law in MO lives West of Hannibal at Bethel.

Check some of these links for ammo, Sportsman Guide has been reliable for me:
http://www.google.co...1l1.3-3.6-1l5l0

Save your empty brass and if you don't handload ask around in sports shops and gun clubs, reloading dies aren't very expensive.

[djhoeft]

I've got a pile of brass, Berton! A guy I know does reloads, soooo... one of these days! Of course, picking up my brass hasn't been much of a problem the last two years as we haven't been successful hunters for two years now (hubby, step-daughter and me). We did some light timber harvesting about 6 years ago and the woods are pretty wooly yet. Not important most years as nothing compares to getting up into my deer stand at 5:30 am and having the woods wake up around me.