Maybe I won't get back to my jewelry blog - I'm enjoying this and lots of people are viewing...so for the time being, I'll be a political commenter with a jewelry business on the side. But, please come take a look at my shop and purchase some of my cool jewelry. Scottsdale, AZ is loving it in the shops that carry it.
Okay - let's talk about the right to vote. It is a special and treasured right that our constitution bestows on us and it is a right that more citizens should use. During most elections only between 40 something percent and 60 something percent vote - that is criminal... it should be over 90%,, as close to 100% as it can feasibly get - but I guess that isn't going to happen in my lifetime. The only good thing about that is, it means that anywhere from 60 to 40 % of the citizens of this country are not allowed to bitch or complain about anything that happens here. If you don't vote - you must keep your mouth shut about ANYTHING that occurs that is somehow touched or influenced by a politician...and there isn't much that they don't touch. So remember this the next time that someone is ranting and raving about something - quietly interrupt their tirade (unless you totally agree with them) and ask them if they voted the last time they were given the right to vote - if they didn't, tell them that according to Linda's Law they are not allowed to bitch. Now they may question you on what that law is - but by the time you are done with explanations - they will either have forgotten what they were upset about or they won't care any more.
In order to qualify to vote, I think that we seriously need to make some changes. First of all we must have to show a valid picture I.D....you cannot cash a check without one, you can't travel, you needed to show that 3 times to get into the Democratic convention, you can't win a jackpot in a casino, you can't check into a hotel... surely we can show one to vote. We have four years now to get this passed and it MUST be passed. Illegal aliens have no business either being forced to vote (Las Vegas this election cycle ) or just voting for their own reasons without becoming citizens. Everyone and anyone either has a valid picture I.D. or has plenty of time to get it before the next election. We must enact this for the sanctity of our elections.
Now let's talk about voting machines. There has been allot of talk after this election about voter fraud and voting machine irregularites. This has to be addressed and fixed. If little Joey, the computer nerd down the street, can hack into the Pentagon's computers, how are we to stop a determined individual, or political party, from messing with our votes. There are several areas this time that have numerous precincts that supposedly voted 100% for nobama - not one vote for Romney and that just isn't possible. Look at all the reports of people casting their vote for Romney and the machine changed the vote to nobama.. One reporter - egad, there is a Republican leaning reporter still left out there - had so much trouble with his machine trying to vote for Romney, that he forced the watchers to open it - and there were no Romney votes recorded during the time that he voted...this has to be fixed. Maybe we need all paper ballots and manual counts - but no ballots with chads, please - but we need to insure that not only is the voting process honest, but also that machine that records it is also honest.
I'm going out on a limb here - but it's my blog, so I can say what I want, and no one has to agree. In the original Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, a genius, wanted anyone who voted to be educated and to be a land owner. I personally think that he was on the right track. In order to vote, people should be prepared to show that they can read - either letters or braille. If you can not read, how can you possiblely vote??? Have you ever listened to "Man on the Street " interviews around election time? They are truly frightening - people who have no idea who the vice president is - people who admit to getting their news from Jon Stewart - people who thought that "Stu Ped " was a candidate for election...it goes on and on, and it is humorous until you think about the ramifications - this person is going into a voting booth and voting for the person and people who will control your destiny....A truly scary thought! ! !
So voting is a precious right that we need to protect and practice. It is also a severly abused right that needs some dramatic fixes. Now is the time to institute those fixes before we enter the next election cycle...til next time...Have a happy Turkey Day to all of you...
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2012
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Beam Me Up, Scotty
Okay, I think it's a pretty well established fact here that I am definitely a techno tard - I try, I really do, but it just ain't there. A few weeks ago, I got a new computer, because my husband's had crashed and since I am now the one with the business, I got the new puter. I love it and getting it up and going was tougher than I would have liked, but basically I got there, between me and the geek squad ( God bless them).
I elected to not have them make my recovery disks - it was a $90.00 charge that I didn't want to pay after all the new stuff and softwear and backup, etc., etc., etc., that I needed for the puter. During one of the numerous trips that we made to Best Buy - my personal geek told me that I really needed to do something about recovery disks - that if my baby crashed, I would basically be up old sh...t creek without them. So on my next trip I told the geek, Jason, who was helping me that I thought I needed to do something about recovery disks - and he said, no big deal, I'll sell you the disks - it's easy, just go into the program menu and it will be under the section on your computer --- just click on the part about "recovery disks". He said that it was time consuming, but easy.
Just once I wish what someone told me about computers would be true - unfortunately, it was relatively fast, but not so easy. I started this travail,because there was nothing about recovery disks in my computer, out by calling Best Buy to talk to the geek squad - and was put on hold. A very annoying voice told me that I was second in line and fool that I am, I decided to wait. Well wait I did, and after about 1/2 hour I was put through and immediately, cut off. I waited about an hour and then called again, this time I was third in line and decided not to wait. A few hours later, I called and got through - unfortunately, the person that I spoke to needed to be fired. Believe me when I tell you that this man did not finish first in charm school - because he was alone, he would not go look at a computer like mine so he couldn't answer my questions. He told me that I needed to call technical support and I said that all the help my husband and I had received up til now was from this store and this geek squad and that's who my sizable check had gone to. He proceeded to inform me that I was in this mess because I was too cheap to pay the $90.00 for them to do it, and that the person who had helped me, was not a geek squad member, just someone who answered the phone. By this time my patience was wearing a bit thin - I said something to the effect that this person had on a geek squad shirt with his name on it, and I was supposed to know that he wasn't qualified to do this by ESP??? He'd already given me the next phone number so when he started off again - I did a rude thing, my mother would have frowned at...but it felt good. I told him that he really needed to try and learn some people skills and hung up
I got technical support rather easily - too many thingies to push, but I got there and spoke to a very nice woman named, Civica,...I wondered if this might be an omen that someone was going to treat me politely...and they did, but she had no idea in hell what I was talking about and told me that she was going to connect me to the command deck. I felt like I was on the starship Enterprize and Capt. Kirk was waiting around the corner to help me. It was actually Daniel on the first call and Dustin on the second, they filled in for Scotty and Mr. Spock, but they got me where I needed to be and I now have 3 recovery disks if my baby gets fatally ill.
I have come to the conclusion lately, that nothing is ever easy anymore - and some people take a perverse pleasure in trying to make things worse, but if you can see the funny side (and there usually is, at least one funny side) your life will be allot more enjoyable. As soon as that picture of the Enterprize entered my head, I knew that I was going to get through this thing, and I thought that it needed sharing and that's what I'm doing...have a good one all and come visit my shop - it's more fun than my computer.
I elected to not have them make my recovery disks - it was a $90.00 charge that I didn't want to pay after all the new stuff and softwear and backup, etc., etc., etc., that I needed for the puter. During one of the numerous trips that we made to Best Buy - my personal geek told me that I really needed to do something about recovery disks - that if my baby crashed, I would basically be up old sh...t creek without them. So on my next trip I told the geek, Jason, who was helping me that I thought I needed to do something about recovery disks - and he said, no big deal, I'll sell you the disks - it's easy, just go into the program menu and it will be under the section on your computer --- just click on the part about "recovery disks". He said that it was time consuming, but easy.
Just once I wish what someone told me about computers would be true - unfortunately, it was relatively fast, but not so easy. I started this travail,because there was nothing about recovery disks in my computer, out by calling Best Buy to talk to the geek squad - and was put on hold. A very annoying voice told me that I was second in line and fool that I am, I decided to wait. Well wait I did, and after about 1/2 hour I was put through and immediately, cut off. I waited about an hour and then called again, this time I was third in line and decided not to wait. A few hours later, I called and got through - unfortunately, the person that I spoke to needed to be fired. Believe me when I tell you that this man did not finish first in charm school - because he was alone, he would not go look at a computer like mine so he couldn't answer my questions. He told me that I needed to call technical support and I said that all the help my husband and I had received up til now was from this store and this geek squad and that's who my sizable check had gone to. He proceeded to inform me that I was in this mess because I was too cheap to pay the $90.00 for them to do it, and that the person who had helped me, was not a geek squad member, just someone who answered the phone. By this time my patience was wearing a bit thin - I said something to the effect that this person had on a geek squad shirt with his name on it, and I was supposed to know that he wasn't qualified to do this by ESP??? He'd already given me the next phone number so when he started off again - I did a rude thing, my mother would have frowned at...but it felt good. I told him that he really needed to try and learn some people skills and hung up
I got technical support rather easily - too many thingies to push, but I got there and spoke to a very nice woman named, Civica,...I wondered if this might be an omen that someone was going to treat me politely...and they did, but she had no idea in hell what I was talking about and told me that she was going to connect me to the command deck. I felt like I was on the starship Enterprize and Capt. Kirk was waiting around the corner to help me. It was actually Daniel on the first call and Dustin on the second, they filled in for Scotty and Mr. Spock, but they got me where I needed to be and I now have 3 recovery disks if my baby gets fatally ill.
I have come to the conclusion lately, that nothing is ever easy anymore - and some people take a perverse pleasure in trying to make things worse, but if you can see the funny side (and there usually is, at least one funny side) your life will be allot more enjoyable. As soon as that picture of the Enterprize entered my head, I knew that I was going to get through this thing, and I thought that it needed sharing and that's what I'm doing...have a good one all and come visit my shop - it's more fun than my computer.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Further Adventures of a Techno-tard
Last week my husbands' computer took one last breathe and died. We mourned appropriately and decided to get along with one computer...however, John, my husband, must have "crash computer" fingers or something. I have never had a problem with the dreaded blue screens that he had when he booted up...but after using my computer for only three days, he managed to get two of those awful screens on my set up. We decided that it was time for a new technological baby in our house, so we traipsed off to Best Buy to hopefully find a geek that spoke English that we understood.
Why are there never salespeople for techy stuff that are past their twenties? I always feel so old when I have to buy some techy equipment. Of course, I am old, but I do hate feeling that way. There was a woman in the geek squad area and she worked there and she had to be pushing 60, and I thought she got lost from accounting or the steno pool...she really looked out of place. Whoa - slap my face for promoting age discrimination...I do apologize.
Anyone who knows me, or reads my blogs, knows how much I not only hate change, but tie that in with something to do with technology and I am not a happy camper. So this last week has not been a pleasant one in our house, either for me or my husband. I have been at the screen way too many hours and if he wanted to eat, he had to cook...not his favorite past time. Right now, he's steaming the floors, please don't anyone tell him that I am having fun writing my blog, not slaving over this d... machine trying to make it do what I want.
Why is it that in making things bigger and better, the creators assume that we know how to bridge the gaps from old to new - or we are willing to discard the old and fully embrace the new? Hey, I'm almost waxing philosophy here - heavens forbid. In any case, I used AOL...and as most of you must know, only the least geekest among us use that, but, in my defense, I started using that when it was about all that was available and I am not now changing my email that is printed and stored everywhere and with everyone that I know. I had a huge contact list, divided into very logical divisions so I could send "sale" mail when I wanted to, contact a couple of groups I belong to, family, different groups of friends, etc. etc. So I go into AOL the other day and they no longer have groups - so all my contacts, probably more than a thousand are all together, and a vast majority I have no idea who they are or where they belong. There is no fixing something like that - and it not only makes me irrationally angry ( there's a better word, but I hate to be vulgar in my blog) but it really mucks up one of my main means of promoting my jewelry studio. Maybe if I'd know ahead of time, I could have somehow coped with it, going so far as purchasing some softwear where I could have entered these lists and then had them downloaded when my info was brought from the old to the new.
Maybe I am not non techy - maybe I am anti-techy. Something that is supposed to make our lives simpler and more organized and easier, should not present the problems that it does. I realize that I am pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff, but how in hell should I know that my groupings were about to dissappear....was this an educational gap? Should I have known this intuitively? I knew I was going to continue to use AOL for my mail and I assumed my groupings would be along for the ride. I don't think I would be as upset as I am if I had any idea how to fix it....ah well, it's done, on to the next adventure.
I am now using Chrome for my whatchamacallit instead of Microsoft explorer which I was told that I HAD to do - I am not using AOL as my gateway to the internet - which I am assuming was really lame - so I guess that I have climbed a few rungs on the techy ladder, but not enough...til next time.
Why are there never salespeople for techy stuff that are past their twenties? I always feel so old when I have to buy some techy equipment. Of course, I am old, but I do hate feeling that way. There was a woman in the geek squad area and she worked there and she had to be pushing 60, and I thought she got lost from accounting or the steno pool...she really looked out of place. Whoa - slap my face for promoting age discrimination...I do apologize.
Anyone who knows me, or reads my blogs, knows how much I not only hate change, but tie that in with something to do with technology and I am not a happy camper. So this last week has not been a pleasant one in our house, either for me or my husband. I have been at the screen way too many hours and if he wanted to eat, he had to cook...not his favorite past time. Right now, he's steaming the floors, please don't anyone tell him that I am having fun writing my blog, not slaving over this d... machine trying to make it do what I want.
Why is it that in making things bigger and better, the creators assume that we know how to bridge the gaps from old to new - or we are willing to discard the old and fully embrace the new? Hey, I'm almost waxing philosophy here - heavens forbid. In any case, I used AOL...and as most of you must know, only the least geekest among us use that, but, in my defense, I started using that when it was about all that was available and I am not now changing my email that is printed and stored everywhere and with everyone that I know. I had a huge contact list, divided into very logical divisions so I could send "sale" mail when I wanted to, contact a couple of groups I belong to, family, different groups of friends, etc. etc. So I go into AOL the other day and they no longer have groups - so all my contacts, probably more than a thousand are all together, and a vast majority I have no idea who they are or where they belong. There is no fixing something like that - and it not only makes me irrationally angry ( there's a better word, but I hate to be vulgar in my blog) but it really mucks up one of my main means of promoting my jewelry studio. Maybe if I'd know ahead of time, I could have somehow coped with it, going so far as purchasing some softwear where I could have entered these lists and then had them downloaded when my info was brought from the old to the new.
Maybe I am not non techy - maybe I am anti-techy. Something that is supposed to make our lives simpler and more organized and easier, should not present the problems that it does. I realize that I am pretty clueless when it comes to this stuff, but how in hell should I know that my groupings were about to dissappear....was this an educational gap? Should I have known this intuitively? I knew I was going to continue to use AOL for my mail and I assumed my groupings would be along for the ride. I don't think I would be as upset as I am if I had any idea how to fix it....ah well, it's done, on to the next adventure.
I am now using Chrome for my whatchamacallit instead of Microsoft explorer which I was told that I HAD to do - I am not using AOL as my gateway to the internet - which I am assuming was really lame - so I guess that I have climbed a few rungs on the techy ladder, but not enough...til next time.
Monday, April 11, 2011
I am a Techno-tard
They say that in order to address a problem that you must admit that you have it. Well, when it comes to the lack of computer knowledge, I have it in spades! ! ! I always said that I was deficient in computerese - or I was technically challenged - or one of those all encompassing phrases that covered my problem....but the other day, I was on the forums on Artfire and someone called herself a "techno-tard" and I fell in love with the term. Not only does it describe accurately the malady that I suffer from, but it is euphonius to boot. So the world should take notice - I am officially announcing that "I AM A TECHNO-TARD" . I guess what follows is a day in the life of a techno-tard - or better yet, further adventures of a techno-tard.
Artfire is running a "social media boot camp" right now and I signed up because it seemed to me that I can use all the help I can get. Our first thing to do was to get a facebook account up and running, with both a personal page and a business page. And much to my amazement, I was ahead of the curve, I had both. Then they wanted us to shorten the URL on our business page after we got 25 fans, which I had...so I followed the directions and this is the message that I got from facebook -
"To access this page, you'll need to switch from using Facebook as your page to using Facebook as yourself."
I hope this makes as little sense to you, the reader, as it did to me. One simple sentence and I was totally lost. How could anyone understand what they meant? I mean, I may be a techno-tard, but I am not stupid, at least I wasn't the last time that I checked. So my URL is still an ugly long series of letters and numbers, unlike all the other campers, and even with personal help from several kind souls, I have not conquered the URL shortening. It's depressing - I may have to go back to my cabin and hide under my cot or inside my trunk.
As a techno-tard, I have several pet peeves concerning computer use. Why do they have to ask me if I'm "Sure that I want to proceed" or "Sure that I want to delete this" or "Sure that this is what I want to do" - idiots!!! Of course I am not sure - I don't know what I am doing - so they ask this unsure individual and I have to say "NO" - and consequently, nothing gets done. Why couldn't they give mutiple choices, like if you proceed this will specific thing will happen, or do this and something else will happen? I'm afraid if I go past these warnings that my computer will crash and I will be lost forever without any access to technology.
Artfire is running a "social media boot camp" right now and I signed up because it seemed to me that I can use all the help I can get. Our first thing to do was to get a facebook account up and running, with both a personal page and a business page. And much to my amazement, I was ahead of the curve, I had both. Then they wanted us to shorten the URL on our business page after we got 25 fans, which I had...so I followed the directions and this is the message that I got from facebook -
"To access this page, you'll need to switch from using Facebook as your page to using Facebook as yourself."
I hope this makes as little sense to you, the reader, as it did to me. One simple sentence and I was totally lost. How could anyone understand what they meant? I mean, I may be a techno-tard, but I am not stupid, at least I wasn't the last time that I checked. So my URL is still an ugly long series of letters and numbers, unlike all the other campers, and even with personal help from several kind souls, I have not conquered the URL shortening. It's depressing - I may have to go back to my cabin and hide under my cot or inside my trunk.
As a techno-tard, I have several pet peeves concerning computer use. Why do they have to ask me if I'm "Sure that I want to proceed" or "Sure that I want to delete this" or "Sure that this is what I want to do" - idiots!!! Of course I am not sure - I don't know what I am doing - so they ask this unsure individual and I have to say "NO" - and consequently, nothing gets done. Why couldn't they give mutiple choices, like if you proceed this will specific thing will happen, or do this and something else will happen? I'm afraid if I go past these warnings that my computer will crash and I will be lost forever without any access to technology.
Another thing that really annoys me, and it took me forever to get past it, is that dam pop up window that comes up when you visit a web site and it says something about do you want to only see the material that was delivered safely or do you want to see everything and risk infecting and maybe, killing your machine. Do you remember the scene in the movie Speed where Kenau Reeves is telling everyone on the bus about the bomb that is on the bus that's gonnal blow if they slow down or anyone gets off the bus - and Sandra Bullock stands up and forcefully says "STOP, you are scaring all these people" ? Well, I feel like those people whenever I see that dam blue pop up. I just wish that they would leave me in blissful ignorance once in while.
I don't know if there's a 10 step program for techno-tards or if it's a permanent condition. I know that I have come a long way in my computer knowledge, but I also know that I have a hell of allot further to go than I have come. I think I am going to quit camp - I really was feeling pretty good about my expanding skills, and then one stupid sentence sends me for a loop and qualifies me as a failure at the easiest task that probably will be assigned. The only thing is - they are going to be discussing Twitter - and that means, maybe, I could send tweats...don't know how much business it could generate, but it just sounds like fun..."don't bother me, I'm tweating" Of course, with a line like that, my husband might have me committed with a bird fixation...I'll have to think on that one!!!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Never Trust Your Children
Continuing in the same vein that my first two blogs are let me tell you a story that might amuse you. I must admit that I didn't see the humor in this situation for several months, but I guess I do now. I think that it illustrates perfectly the difference between the techies and the non techies - or those who were raised with computers and those of us who weren't. I also think that it illustrates how differently these generations think.
I was toying with the idea of a web site of my own and decided to talk to my daughter about it. She is a photographer( named one of the 20 top wedding photographers in the country last year - sorry, proud mother - her site is Artisan Events) and has had a web site forever. Does lots of stuff with it and was also in the throws of opening a web based business. So we have this long and involved discussion about the pros and cons of me having my own site, as opposed to opening a (my) shop where there were other artisans selling their wares and I just had to follow the web sites' protocol. We talked about the cost of development and the cost of this being on a server as opposed to the costs of a site like Artfire, where I am, which is a monthly fee...or at a place like 1000 markets, where I was, which charged a % of any sales. It was a good and involved conversation and when we were heading to the end I asked her, what to me was a perfectly logical question, which was..........."what do I look under in the yellow pages to find someone to write my program????"
I will make a bet that to most anyone over maybe, 55, that this question makes allot of sense. I will also make a bet that anyone much younger than that is still laughing. My child, flesh of my flesh, told the whole free world about this - and she didn't just do it verbally, she put it on Facebook so that the 1000's of her friends could have a good laugh too. I found out about this the next day when my other daughter called me, laughing, of course, and the first words out of her mouth were - " You didn't really ask Amanda where in the (snicker, snicker) yellow pages you could find someone to write a program for you, did you"
There's not much more to say -
I was toying with the idea of a web site of my own and decided to talk to my daughter about it. She is a photographer( named one of the 20 top wedding photographers in the country last year - sorry, proud mother - her site is Artisan Events) and has had a web site forever. Does lots of stuff with it and was also in the throws of opening a web based business. So we have this long and involved discussion about the pros and cons of me having my own site, as opposed to opening a (my) shop where there were other artisans selling their wares and I just had to follow the web sites' protocol. We talked about the cost of development and the cost of this being on a server as opposed to the costs of a site like Artfire, where I am, which is a monthly fee...or at a place like 1000 markets, where I was, which charged a % of any sales. It was a good and involved conversation and when we were heading to the end I asked her, what to me was a perfectly logical question, which was..........."what do I look under in the yellow pages to find someone to write my program????"
I will make a bet that to most anyone over maybe, 55, that this question makes allot of sense. I will also make a bet that anyone much younger than that is still laughing. My child, flesh of my flesh, told the whole free world about this - and she didn't just do it verbally, she put it on Facebook so that the 1000's of her friends could have a good laugh too. I found out about this the next day when my other daughter called me, laughing, of course, and the first words out of her mouth were - " You didn't really ask Amanda where in the (snicker, snicker) yellow pages you could find someone to write a program for you, did you"
There's not much more to say -
Friday, October 22, 2010
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Okay, according to my computer guru, the more of these that I can post, the more serious that google will take me. Does that sound as stupid to all of you as it does to me? I am actually taking an action, spending a little bit of the little bit of free time that I have to impress something that lives in machine?
As you know from my first post, I am a very non techy person. In my first life, before retirement, I was, among other things, a dental consultant and fell into being a national expert on dental software implementation...I was on technology's cutting edge. Unfortunately, that was in the 80's and it is now 2010 and I am so far from the edge that I can't even see it anymore.
After retirement I became a jewelry artisan and have a shop at Artfire. Before that I had a shop at 1000 Markets, and unfortuately they were sold and then I moved to Artfire. This is where I am now spinning my wheels and trying to cope with the technology of the 2000's with a brain that was trained in the mid 1900's. Let me tell you, it ain't easy. I am dealing with things that I never heard of until last week...caches...SOE (or is it SEO's??) ...links ...and let us not forget, clickable links....they even want me to tweet, and I'm so tone deaf, I can't sing...I will have a kiosk to connect my facebook page to my shop - isn't a kiosk one of those freestanding, small shops in malls??? I just found out that "tabs" and "bookmarks" are the same thing - boy, you could have fooled me, without even trying...
I may be older - but I do love to learn. So in the back of my mind is a desire to conquer this monster. But...I discovered a connection here that I bet that no one else has seen. When they stopped printing hard copy documentation for software and hardware...I stopped learning about it. I upgraded my accounting software in the early 90's and there was no documentation except on the computer...I could either do the computer or read the directions, it was impossible to do both at the same time, and in order to maintain my sanity, I decided that I needed to stop doing this....and I did. I did not learn one new thing about these machines until I was forced to learn a little for 1000 Markets and now allot for Artfire. It is very hard to relearn the way that you learn...trust me on this. I have printed out almost 2 inches of instruction from Artfire in less than a month. I know that I can afford the monthly fee to be on the site, but I am concerned if I will be able to afford the reams of paper that I may need.
That's about it for now - but this may turn into a continuing saga...Have a good one all.
As you know from my first post, I am a very non techy person. In my first life, before retirement, I was, among other things, a dental consultant and fell into being a national expert on dental software implementation...I was on technology's cutting edge. Unfortunately, that was in the 80's and it is now 2010 and I am so far from the edge that I can't even see it anymore.
After retirement I became a jewelry artisan and have a shop at Artfire. Before that I had a shop at 1000 Markets, and unfortuately they were sold and then I moved to Artfire. This is where I am now spinning my wheels and trying to cope with the technology of the 2000's with a brain that was trained in the mid 1900's. Let me tell you, it ain't easy. I am dealing with things that I never heard of until last week...caches...SOE (or is it SEO's??) ...links ...and let us not forget, clickable links....they even want me to tweet, and I'm so tone deaf, I can't sing...I will have a kiosk to connect my facebook page to my shop - isn't a kiosk one of those freestanding, small shops in malls??? I just found out that "tabs" and "bookmarks" are the same thing - boy, you could have fooled me, without even trying...
I may be older - but I do love to learn. So in the back of my mind is a desire to conquer this monster. But...I discovered a connection here that I bet that no one else has seen. When they stopped printing hard copy documentation for software and hardware...I stopped learning about it. I upgraded my accounting software in the early 90's and there was no documentation except on the computer...I could either do the computer or read the directions, it was impossible to do both at the same time, and in order to maintain my sanity, I decided that I needed to stop doing this....and I did. I did not learn one new thing about these machines until I was forced to learn a little for 1000 Markets and now allot for Artfire. It is very hard to relearn the way that you learn...trust me on this. I have printed out almost 2 inches of instruction from Artfire in less than a month. I know that I can afford the monthly fee to be on the site, but I am concerned if I will be able to afford the reams of paper that I may need.
That's about it for now - but this may turn into a continuing saga...Have a good one all.
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