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How Technology is Trying to Embarrass Me

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They used to call me "Becky Techie." I have been interested in technology since my first computer class, "Computer Math," way back in 1985.  I had my first personal computer, a Mac, in 1995, and taught myself a lot.  I was the first person my friends turned to for computer help, and many times, I regretted not getting a degree in that field.  When I was teaching, I was a certified teacher technology trainer, and helped each teacher I knew integrate a new "online gradebook," back when it wasn't even commonplace.  I loved desktop publishing, and started with Print Shop, before Photoshop was even a big thing.  I even taught myself HTML and made entire websites with it.  I stopped doing that in about 2005.

But.

The following is a list of things that I have said or done recently, that show me that technology is trying to embarrass me:


  1. Yesterday, I asked my oldest son if he'd "bought the new Garth Brooks CD yet," to which he replied, "Um, Mom, I downloaded it the day it came out."  Oh yeah.  That's a thing. 
  2. I actually said to my kids "I don't even need a smart phone.  All I use it for is to call you guys, or text Dad. I have the computer at home."  eye roll
  3. After moving the monitor from one room to another (and falling down while carrying it, but being lucky and it landed on the bed), I came back in to move the CPU.  Yeah.  The CPU is built into our monitor..it always has been. 
  4. Realized that we don't have DSL. It's not, nor has it been in awhile, hooked up to our phone lines.  Our internet is through UVerse, so it's through their network.  Or something.  I do know it's not dial-up, so there.  
  5. After installing my JASC PaintShop Pro 8 on our new computer, and looking for updates, I realized that JASC isn't even the owner of PaintShop any more.  It's Corel.
    And the the current version is X7.  There were at least 10 versions made since my PaintShop Pro 8 (no X).
  6. I just realized yesterday, that people actually make "vlogs," which would save a helluva lot of time! 
  7. I still tell the kids I "taped" shows for them.  
  8. I keep calling DVDs "CDs,"

This isn't even the complete list, but it's enough to make me realize that it's really true about "snoozing and losing" with technology.  Good gravy...I need a nap.  ;)














I Like the Night Life..

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Jimmy Fallon and Michelle Obama
"Evolution of Dance for Moms"
...no, I don't like to boogie.  Actually, yes I do.  I love to dance.  Granted, I dance as well as I sing, and know that I can't sing. Like, at all.  So there you go.  I have always liked to dance.  I don't exactly like to share this, but as a teen I used to go into my bedroom at night and make up elaborate dances to songs I had recorded (on a cassette tape, mind you, it was the 80's).  I would even "choreograph" dances that I would rehearse over and over again.  I also had quite a few "friends" with whom I conversed about how hard "our" dances were.  Ok fine, I talked to my dang self!  I was a good friend, though, and I tell you, my "partners" were dang good dancers.  As was I.

 I might have also played school and other various things while locked away in my room.  Yes, I was teenager when I was doing these things.  I was bizarre.  I was skinny though, and always active.  I was a baton twirler (majorette) and also in flag corps (aka color guard) during high school, and I liked to put my boom box in the front window of the house, and then go into the front yard and practice.  I was such a nerd. Regardless, I never was very good at any of it.  Mediocre was the norm for me, no matter how much I practiced my various "crafts." I'll admit though, if I could, I would turn on the TV and make up dances to things.  I know, I know, I could just do it anyway, but since I am almost 48 years old, I'm not too sure I could "bust a move" comparable to the ones in high school.  I'd more likely "bust a hip," or in some other way render myself incapacitated for at least a few days.  Plus, my downstairs neighbors would probably think we had adopted a bear or something similar in size.

I never really have a topic when I write this blog.  I do pretty well by just writing from the top of my head.  I'd like to think I'm kind of funny, and that's something else I'd like to practice in this blog. From my audience, all I need is a giggle or two, or an "oh my god [...Becky, look at her butt... I digress] I can totally relate to what she's saying."  And she's gorgeous to boot. Is that too much to ask? By the way, I just realized, and I'm a freakin' English major, that ellipses are only three periods. I really missed that memo in my 4000+ English classes.
O_o

It's 3:02 am and I'm not remotely sleepy. This will probably be an all-nighter for me.  Maybe I could go make up a routine and practice until I get tired...nah. I'll probably just watch TV.  Same difference.



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