Introduce Yourself

What's up fellow Steamians? (Not sure if that's the proper terminology) My name is Doug and I'm delighted to have been accepted into this community. I live in Maryland here in the USA. I'm a sports fan and among my favorite teams are the Baltimore birds - both Orioles and Ravens. Shout out to the former Ravens players and front office personnel
who won the Superbowl with the Philadelphia Eagles this year.

I go back a few years so even though the Colts are now in Indianapolis to me they are still a part of the Baltimore sports family. Growing up in this area, sports have always gone the distance as far as inspiring and motivating me. I wish to share some of that inspiration with the Steemit community.

Moving down the timeline a little, after high school and a year of college I enlisted in the US Army. It was a time of peace and I really enjoyed the experience of being a soldier. There's nothing else like it and I met people who are still my friends today. I met my wife while serving in the military which is one of the best things that has happened to me. I also volunteered and served in an elite unit as a paratrooper. "All the way"

I learned a little something about computers in the military but they weren't too popular back then; at least not in the home. When home PCs started catching on they didn't come internet ready. How many people here can remember when you had to go to Sears to buy a Prodigy kit? This kit had hardware and software that you installed on your computer so you could go online through your phone jack.

Man, we've sure come along way since then. They used to sound like a fax machine connection and as soon as you started to really browsing, the modem would sometimes drop the signal. Anyway, I'm not here to tell my age, but that was back in the day before there was a Google.

There's an old saying - The man who wants something in life finds a way, the man who doesn't finds an excuse. So what is this something I want? Well, I've set my mind to becoming a success here on Steemit and from what I can see the way for me to do that is by helping others through well thought out motivational and inspirational articles and
comments. Let me know what you think of my strategy.