Soon after we were married in 1999, with a few months of work at The ZOO under my belt (and the web site gig still on the side), I (reluctantly) got back into Higher Ed Administration when I took a full-time job at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

On the one hand, it was intriguing because I was in charge of the alumni and donors database, and responsible for other computer-related tasks in the office.

On the other hand, it was against everything I stood for at the time: pursuing only the things in life that you're passionate about.

Jim informed me that I could be passionate about this... so I accepted... in search of that passion. It never found me.

I spent most of my time in the closet (where the server was kept)rebooting the system and trying to make error messages go away.