About
About who? Me? There’s nothing special about me….
Ok, if you insist.
I currently live in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona but I’ve spent time in Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and California before settling here.
I am married to a wonderful man (12 years) and have two children. My daughter, K, is 19 and son, Z, is 11. We are owned by three Miniature Schnauzers: Greta (black), Nero (salt & pepper) and Duchess (white) and two fish.
I spend Monday – Friday in north Scottsdale as a Lead Technical Architect for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing. My specialties are MicroStrategy, a BI software tool and Informatica, a data integration tool. It’s interesting and it fulfills my primary job goal: To make someone else’s job easier.
I work to support my family primarily, but also to support what I *really* like doing: stitching, reading, watching baseball and playing on the computer.
Stitching includes: cross-stitch, hardanger, drawn thread, knitting, crochet and even the odd beading project now and then. I’ve done it all at one time or another. You can see pictures of some of my projects on my website: Annette’s Acre.
I read mysteries and fantasy, mostly. I will read other genres as I find things that catch my interest or are recommended by friends and family. Favorite authors include: Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Elizabeth Peters, Jim Butcher, David Eddings, Anne Bishop, Diana Gabaldon, JR Ward…..and I could go on and on. I *love* to read. So much I have amassed a nice bookmark collection 
Baseball? Love it. I root for the Atlanta Braves and the Arizona Diamondbacks. They are my “boys” and the six games a year when they play each other is a stressful time in the house!
We are a gaming family. We have computers (PC and Mac), Xbox360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and Sony Playstation Portable (PSP). I like puzzle (PuzzleQuest), strategy (Civilization Revolution) and platformers (Lego Star Wars, Indiana Jones & Batman and Ratchet & Clank franchise)
So that’s all “about” me – or at least what I think are the semi-interesting bits
