About
Hi! I’m Terri Shea. This is my personal blog. I rant about my life and show off my latest designs.
10 things I’ve done that you probably haven’t
1. Saw Mt. St. Helens errupting on May 18, 1980.
2. Went naked through a Dunkin’ Donuts drivethru. (I was eighteen. Sue me.)
3. Sat on a grand jury. It was June 1992 or ‘93, and I got to participate in sending out every single felony indictment in Lane County, OR. It was a life changing event which scared me straight.
4. Moved to a new city with $32.37 in my pocket and a crappy job waiting for me. I lived in a closet for three months and saved every penny I earned (minus food and bus fare) to get first/last/deposit on my own apartment.
5. Designed and wrote the code for the “Getting Started” applet in Microsoft Windows 98. With the help of my team, of course. Win98 was code named Memphis, and so we named our component Elvis. I still have a copy in my office.
6. Gathered buffalo down from a buffalo wallow at Yellowstone. I also found a really cool piece of jasper, and it has become a special talisman for me.
7. Climbed the great pyramid, and looked into the sacred cenote, at Chichen Itza.
8. Been first guest at a Japanese tea ceremony.
9. Stepped barefoot on a banana slug in the Oregon rain forest on Cape Mears. It was as disgusting as it sounds.
10. And of course, self published a book, which is in its second printing with a third on the horizon.