A Surprisingly Sane Blog

I just got back from an Open House where my dad works.  He’s one of those ridiculously smart, hard-working, electronic engineer types.  And he’s been working for the same company nearly my entire life.

I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see the place my dad works because A) it’s kind of one of those Top Secret sort of companies that you have to wear a badge to get into, and B) really, what the invitation translated to was, I’d like to show off my granddaughters, if you don’t mind, and I couldn’t deny him that proud young grandfather (or, Pee-paw, as Julie calls him) moment.

Ah, the world of geeks.  It’s like going home when I step into a place like that.  I must have been an engineer of sorts in a past life, as nerdy as that sounds.

Or maybe it’s just the fact that I grew up under the same roof as an engineer, then later managed to marry one.

Its like, even the smell of the office is familiar.  The hallways and cubicles full of the smart and the geeky.  The completely endearing, good-humored people who get into heated discussions about semi-conductors.  They were most likely never members of the high school football team and probably run like girls and snort when they laugh… but they’re just my kind of folk.  Most of ‘em don’t care if their socks are mismatched or that their purple and green argyle sweater should have been burned to ashes ages ago.  And that’s exactly why I like them.

Today when I stepped into that environment and heard the words, “Oh, so you’re [insert name here]… yeah, my dad talks smack about you all the time,” flying out of my mouth at the brilliant man standing in front of me, who laughed (thank God) while he is shaking my hand, I realized that holy shit…

…I sound just like my dad with his totally warped sense of humor.  Especially when I hear, “She’s definitely your daughter,” with a smile of approval pointed in my father’s direction.  Nevermind that the very person I’m cracking that joke at is one of the most intelligent people my dad has ever met.

I may not hold a science or engineering degree, but I suppose the geek charm is just embedded into my genetic makeup.

Birds of a feather definitely flock together, and I am most certainly the apple that didn’t fall too far from the tree.

Current Mood: Cool

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