Day 77 ~ Go With the Flow Techno!

Day 77 ~ Go With the Flow Techno!

 

Mar 18, 2014

 

My first: I finally relented and bought a new laptop with 8.1 Microsoft, a blue tooth, and a new printer.

 

My almost 5-year-old laptop was dying a slow death…precious hours wasted continually rebooting after the “blue screen of death” and daily “hung up in a loop” syndromes. I was scared to death that I would lose all my “stuff”! It was time!

 

I went the day before to have my nephew Jeff take a look to see what he could do to cure my laptop’s annoying disease. He worked on it for a good part of the day and made some headway in speeding up response time. However, my gut still insisted that I end this madness and get a new “healthy” computer.

 

I went to Best Buy that next day with my old laptop and my external hard drive in hand, explaining to a young man in their “Geek Squad” that I wanted data transfers run so that I had my stuff backed up…just in case. I told them that I held no hope for my old laptop and did not want to settle for a band-aid fix. My frustration testified to them that I was in the market for a new device. The obliging “geek” escorted me over to the laptop department and introduced me to David. How knowledgeable can one 22-year-old be! After checking out several models in my price range, I chose THE one (typing on it right now!).

 

Now I am techno-ready for whatever comes my way…at least for this second. We all know how quickly technology is changing. I am probably behind the times with my new “toy” as we speak! Now, I don’t really want to spend all my golden/twilight year moments in front of the computer screen or any screen for that matter…but, ahhhh, it sure is nice to depend on it when I do.

 

The irony of it all, at least as far as I’m concerned, is that as I become older and less of a viable spoke in this cog called the human race, the world of technology ventures onward at warp speed. My flirtation with keeping up with it will be a fleeting memory tomorrow...