Computer Illiterate

Okay...so someone will simply have to drag me into the new millennium! I realized that we are ten years into it, but my resistant has been strong and my heels have dug deep while being pushed forward.

I was having a little computer trouble today in the office. Nothing new, really, this happens at least 2-3 times a week. I truly cannot help it. I am computer illiterate.

I will tell anyone that will listen that the computer class that I took in college while obtaining my BBA in 1980 was a data processing class in which we had to run three inch by nine inch cards with holes punched in them. Sounds archaic, right? I never understood the class. I seem to remember an especially cute guy, who was a computer major at the time, helping me submit my programs to the gigantic machines in the computer lab. Wonder where that guy is now? I can't even recall his name. Probably something like Dell, Jobs or Wozniak. My loss. I thought at the time that if I could just make it out of this class that I would never have to mess with a "computer" again. Oh silly me.

The world I now live in is so technological and I am so technologically challenged. So as the word continued spinning in the direction of newer, bigger, better computers I was busy starting my family. As each child started school and I volunteered in their computer labs, I quizzically looked at each monitor and keyboard as the alien forms that I knew them to be. This was for the next generation, not me. This is what the entire basement floor of Hankamer looked like circa 1980.

Needless to say, as the years went by, I have accepted, if not embraced, what computers have to offer me and my world. It started with Christmas card lists and labels, Print Shop Deluxe for Birthday party invitations and simple Word documents. And lo and behold, I now have a blog with my daughter. Will wonders never cease?

So this afternoon, while 6 student workers and an intern gather around my desk and try to "fix" my problem, I will sit back and watch and be amazed at how far things have come in the computer world, nay in MY world.