Day 7

I am married to a very smart man. I'm not just saying that because this week we celebrate our anniversary and I am trying to earn brownie points with Steve. I mean it. He's way scary smart.  He deals in virtualizations, complex systems analysis, infrastructures and more on a daily basis. He's a geek. I mean that in the most respectful, loving, honoring way possible. He's also very humble and unpretentious! I love this about him. He will help anyone who asks with any technical, computer related issue even if it is just basic stuff that he never really has to think about or do anymore.

Most of the time he talks about stuff that he is working on and I have no clue, not even the slightest, what he is saying but his excitement for what he does makes me excited to listen. I usually don't ask him to teach me to do something computer related, I just ask him to do it. However, when I was talking to him about what my "first" for Sunday could be, he suggested that he teach me how to update the ROM on my Droid phone. He got really excited about it and even told me about CyanogenMod, which is both a modification and a person. Also on a geek side note; apparently Cyanogen, the person, is part of a major coupe this past week on the part of Samsung because they hired this mastermind. (You feel smarter now too, don't you?!)

Steve explained that even just knowing the term "cyanogenmod" would give me "street cred". Today I tested his theory by bringing it up to a guy at Starbucks who I know is all about his Droid. The minute I mentioned "CyanogenMod" his face lit up and he started babbling about the specs and so on... I didn't really listen but I smiled, because I did not know that "street cred" was important until THAT moment when I gained it!