Sigh, definitively not today!
Today I need to 1) finish sorting my office and file and refile everything depending on where what stuff goes (to Puerto Rico with me, to Daughter, to storage, to waste basket) and 2) take care of my technical dilemmas.
My digital camera is broken and needs to be replaced or repaired (but the repair is going to cost almost as much as the new camera, soo….), my laptop works (after being repaired for the second time within a months), but without important programs, like photo-uploading and editing.
About a week ago I found a way of ”creatively” procrastinating from all this – soo boring! - sorting and packing by starting a blog, but now I realize I can’t post any pictures to the blog due to technology malfunctions – and talking of places without pictures???? No fun and no fair.
Last Thursday, while waiting for my laptop to be fixed, I spent some time looking at new laptops and new cameras. I found both a laptop and a camera I like, but could not buy anyone of them right away, without the diplomatic contredance of involving family and “family” tech expertise.
Wait till you get to a certain age and you’ll see that family members (especially children in their thirties who lack own children, because they devote their lives to careers requiring both long hours, disregard for holidays, if they clash with business demands, an extraordinary amount of time spent traveling – mostly overseas – and an active leisure involving an abundance of hobbies and a very active social life), suddenly decide that at your “advanced” age you must have regressed both physically and mentally and need to be taken care of.
I usually don’t mind very much, because, in fact, a certain amount of “being taken care of” is a refreshing change for someone, who I – like I - has been a widow = solo and totally independent – for over a decade. It is darn convenient to have someone else install your programs, repair your stuff, carry heavy bags of garden soil to your huge second floor balcony/terrace, that you decided to turn into a riot of plants, take you on a cruise, to a spa, invite you to a theatre, opera, symphony, when you are visiting or happen to live nearby, make you buy totally unneeded and “a tad” too young (let’s face it: can women in their fifties wear current “baby doll” style without feeling ridiculous???) clothes and accessories, because “mom you dress as if it still were the ninetees” etc. etc.
But in order to secure future “taking care of mom” services, of the desirable variety, I need to be diplomatic.
So I dispatched emails to both Daughter and Ex-son-in-law of what I think I need, what I think I want and …. the answers – probably technically correct – came with choices of stuff I do not really want: buy an Apple…………… while I wanted an HP – its sleek, has a larger screen that Apple, the Best Buy people assure me it will competently do everything I want it to do and more ( although, they, too, recommended Apple due to its ease of use : ” I use it in an elementary school” said a Geek Squad guy… and I am sure he thought that for a “little old lady” it should have been a decisive argument, since surely I must be intimidated by anything else than an elementary school appropriate technological device, lol), it costs less than Apple and would not require me to learn a whole bunch of totally different software at once, since I have always used a pc. I know my ex-son-in-law hates Microsoft and Windows, and at present seems to be particularly set against Windows Vista, but….
Ok, let’s take some more rounds of this diplomatic contredance, while sorting office and let the blog wait a while longer for pictures.
