November 18 marks my daughter Samantha's 17th birthday. She is a magnificent daughter, despite her ability to drive me nuts. Her abilities and capabilities amaze me. She's been blogging since she entered teenhood, long before I found out she even knew what one was. She excels at just about anything she sets her mind. Although neither of us would admit it, we are very much alike.
A Samantha story: Several years ago, I was working with a group of SGML experts . This was in 1996 and I was encouraged to participate in one of their email lists about a particular software product. One evening, I left my email program up and an email creeped in from the list from a disreputable individual who had no business posting to the list let alone posting the dirge he was posting, calling us terrible names that no under 13 year old girl should know.
Now, you have to realize that I had been lurking on this list. I wasn't ready to post anything to it at all.
Sam spotted the email coming in and thought the person was referring to me directly. She hurled a response to this person, she slammed him for saying nasty things about her mother and told him where he could go. She calmly told me that she had taken care of him.
The next day, I slinked into the office and tried not to blush too much as all 30 of the guys came up and made comments about my posting. Most of them wanted to thank Samantha, this guy had been bothering the list for some time. He had been put in his place by a 9 year old. She can still hold her own.
Happy Birthday Sammers!
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