Dec7

‘the internet is a great way to get on the net.’-bob dole.

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as many of you already know, i have been challenged by technology, time and again.

i accept that and hobble and click way through it all

and sometimes it somehow untangles itself and even works.

below are a couple of posts i found online that really are good examples

of an inside look at my technological life, and i so love them. 

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You can be having the nicest day and then you have to print something and you know your day is about to fall apart real fast.

Shoutout to ppl who save documents every 2.1 seconds while working on them because you lost one file 21 years ago & won’t be caught slipping again.

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thank you for your kind service, people who left the above quotes, and, yep.

 

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  1. Blogging is my peak achievement when it comes to computer use. My only tech skill is to unplug everything and plug it back in again. I don’t even have MS Word, as I find it too complicated to use. Then again, I was almost 50 years old when I got my first laptop (running Windows XP) and I had to spend a day with a much younger friend so he could show me how to use it.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • Pete, I can top that one! I was also in my 50’s when I got my first computer and my brother showed me how to use it. He’s a computer whiz, but as a teacher right over my head. He went through all the steps quickly then left me alone with it and his final words, “just play with it and you will figure it out.” I think I might be the only person in the world who ever totally erased the hard drive on a computer. Even the genius was scratching his head in wonder.

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    • Pete, you’re by far not the only one…. I remember working with the first IBM ‘writing ball’ machine, then later on, in an international company we knew how to use a computer typing machine, only to fall back to a dial-up system where I was only allowed to ‘check the mail’ once a day because it cost a fortune…. MS word, Windows xp and whatnot were whizzard thingies and wonder-full! – and by now I teach younger friends than me with far less experience how to use their smartphone, how to order on the internet, how to pay their bills online (postal office shut down one after another) and often I feel quite the bee’s knees in computer things, usually right up the moment I want to print something out and although we have two printers, cannot get the damn things to do their job!!!!

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  7. You’ve been looking over my shoulder. These past few days I haven’t even been able to open my laptop for some reason, then this morning it opened without a problem. Of course, in order to keep up with things I used my Kindle to open the email making it necessary to create new passwords for all my favorite apps. So trying to put the new passwords into the laptop failed and now trying to come up with new and unique ones, since of course the new ones I came up with yesterday aren’t working today. I think I’ll try to bring back communication by smoke signals — nope, that won’t work because there is so much junk in the atmosphere no one would be able to decide which ones are real and which ones are leftover from all the other failed communications.

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  8. Here’s what I actually said to a neighbor who was trying to keep me from suicide: “If these machines aren’t alive, why do I keep getting a message that my printer isn’t communicating with my computer?”

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  11. You know what I thought about as I read this and giggled a bit?
    How I print coloring pages for my little guy all day long sometimes, and when I need to use the printer for something important, I have run out of ink – such as two days ago. lol
    Love this!

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  12. My wife and I joke about this all the time. Do we muddle through our technological problems and waste an inordinate amount of time trying to solve them or call our son? Most likely he will be able to suggest solutions, but then we’ll be ridiculed for how little we know. 🤣

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