I silver medalled in being a geek

Don’t believe me? Well, it seems that google got rid of the webpage with proof, so you’ll just have to trust me.

Many moons ago, while I was working to finish a degree at the local college (Last Chance Cowboy College), my mother was a high school VICA (aka SkillsUSA) sponsor and she had quite the little group of students in her club.

Half way through the year, she prodded me into attending the State SkillsUSA tournament.

I won in “Computer Applications” against the two (maybe…) other contestants.

I was going to Kansas City baby.

Kansas City (also known as the land of BBQ sauce, or the land of huge cow statues) is where they hosted the National Competitions.

Now, just let me say, for the record, all I knew of these National Competitions was when my brother and my mom would leave for a week, and come back with crazy stories and lots of pins from different states (We’ll leave that nightmare to another story). So I had no idea what was involved.

They have competitions from making Pastry Chef to Desiel Mechanic to Nurse to Comuter Geek.

It was also like 424323% Humidity out there, so most of our time was spent going from one air conditioned place to another.

Oh, and getting Cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory.

So, I was amongst 45 other computer geeks. Problem was, no one had told us exactly what was going to happen at nationals. We were all pretty surprised when were told what was going to happen.

Me, being cool, calm, and collected, continued to eat my Cheesecake.

Eventually, my competition came near. They sat us down at a table, with a computer, and gave us a written test, and then a list of things to do in microsoft.

Since no one ever told me I couldn’t use the help, I did.

Eventually it was all over, I was back to eating cheesecake.

I was resigned to not winning anything, and the night of the results came and everyone filled up a huge auditorium. Texans with their big hats, Oklahomans with there big hats. Everyone had big hats.

So, the were announcing who won in the competitions, and lo and behold, I was the silver medal winner for Computer Applications. I got a medal and everything.

Later that night, I also ended up almost knocking my future sister in law out with a keyboard, but that’s another story as well.

So. Why the long boring story?

Right before the awards cerimony, they had this cool video about geese. Ever since then, I’ve occasionally looked for this video. I finally found it on Youtube.

The 20 something in me thought it was a good message, the 30 something still likes it as well.

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