Hello!  Well, I guess first off I'll explain my name.  It all started when I was born  with a Grandmother.  No sense trying to lie about my age, the story will give it away anyhow.  Back then (the early 50's) when cartoons were full of  socially unacceptable stuff like...ramming coyote's heads into the sides of mountains and stealing pic-i-nic baskets, there were these 2 characters, Yogi and BooBoo ya see.  Now Yogi may have been smarter than the average bear, but you rarely hear of anyone nicknamed after him.  To those of you who can relate to going though the list of your children's/grandchildren's names before you find the right one....Uhhh, you....# 5.  Nooooo!!!  BooBoo became the name which my grandmother called ALL of her grandchildren when we were small and cute enough that it fit.

When MY first grandchild was born,  without even realizing that I was doing it.....I'd reached back into my memory of "grandma things" and had begun calling Nicholas....you got it.....BooBoo.  I didn't remember ever calling him "BooBoo"  I didn't consciously assign him that nickname, I just somehow knew that grandkids were "BooBoo's"  As Nicholas was learning to talk, my daughter would point at pictures and say their names, trying to get him to imitate.  No matter how many times she pointed at my picture and said "Grandma"....He said....."BOOBOO".  Thus, I became "BooBoo".  He did later accept that I was also "Grandma"...but still  "BooBoo". 

Great, now that that's cleared up, I'll explain why I call this my "Internet Attic"  It all began with a computer!  Back in....ahhh, 1982.  Yup, a brand spankin' new Commodore 64.  Honestly, the Atari was more fun.  It was cool...about 3 times....to make someone's name scroll across the screen and even though it took much longer to keep financial records on the "computer" (there was little software in those days) it was "new, high tech stuff" and I was therefore intrigued.  Our next computer was a 286!!!  WOW!  We now had color monitors and everything!  Even a colored dot matrix printer!  There was more software and I could do cool stuff like...create a birthday card and set up my own ledger in Lotus 123.  This is pre-Microsoft days here people! My husband (ex now) who had really gotten hooked, went to North Central Tech College with dreams of becoming a programmer (until he found out they made less $ than he was already making)  By then we had 3 computers in the house, one mine, one his, and 1 running the BBS.  :-)  Any of you remember what a BBS is?  Did you think that it was ALWAYS this easy to get "online" ?  Or this CHEAP???

So, having become a "computer widow", I figured if ya can't beat em, join em!  I found flow charting and data bases totally boring!  Ok, I thought....I'll go to college and learn something "interesting".  :-)  Geez, wasn't it enough that I worked 10 hrs a day, 7 days a week?  Nope, I took 2 classes a semester, for the next 5 years.  Of course any major requires at least an introductory course in "computers".  I wanted to hate computers!  If you weren't into programming, there was really very little you could do with one. So, I'm in my "Introduction to Computers" course and am assigned a term paper....about....of all the stupid things.....computing.  I searched 50 computer magazines looking for a topic.  The Technogeeks certainly wanted to keep their little Secret Society...top secret!  There was nothing in any of them that wasn't "Greek" to me.  For goodness sakes, I was a journeyman pipefitter/plumber, I didn't have to (or want to) know how to build a toilet in order to know how to use or fix one!  While I'm ranting and raving about not being able to find any computer topic on which I could speak intelligently, Pat  hands me a box of "stuff" labeled..."Windows 1.03"  There's a VHS tape of Bill Gates being a complete dork (I say that affectionately) explaining how his new Graphic User Interface was going to change the world of computing as we know it!  I got a A on my term paper of course (I always got A's) but Soc/Psych was losing it's interest, and here I am, still on this blasted machine!!!! 

Right around 10 years ago, armed only with a copy of Front Page 95 and my obsessive/compulsive tendencies, I created what can only be called a glorified, colorized 1 page web profile.  It soon grew to 4 pages, then 10, until I out grew my ISP's free space (5 meg) and had to register my own domain name.  Several domain names have come and gone since then.  I've done personal pages for others, a couple small businesses.  I've  NEVER  taken another computer class.  My one regret is that I've never gotten around to learning how to do great graphics!  Oh well, now that I'm retired, who knows!  Over those years, I've collected a ton of "Stuff".  My Grandma called the place where she stored all the "stuff" which she no longer used, but couldn't bear to part with....her "attic".  Well, this is GrandmaBooBoo's Internet Attic.  You'll find over 600 animated gifs, a ton of Star Trek animations, midis and still photos, over 100 Irish midi files and lyrics, Beatles and misc. other midi files, a collection of Faeries, links to all sorts of interesting places and most of all a Photographic Memorial to my Grandparents, Wm. R. and Gladys Joyce in "My Grandma's Scrapbook".

Whether you came here to check out genealogical links, download web page stuff, or stumbled in totally by accident, I hope you will find something useful.  All of the backgrounds on these pages are my own, please feel free to borrow anything you like.  The animation files with the exception of a few (which I have provided a link for) are from various unknown origins.  I long ago gave up trying to credit individuals with animations they claimed as their own when I'd purchased the same animated files as part of "Corel Draw", MS Office or other programs.