Techie wanted

Free room and board for a techie person to help this old gal with the most mundane of technical support. I have a pool and a hot tub, your own bedroom and bathroom. Okay so the food part is an outright lie, I’m not much into cooking anymore. BUT, I always have cereal on hand and milk… okay so the milk is hit and miss, you need to smell it first :  (  I do keep crackers and salsa on hand so you won’t starve ;  )

I didn’t use to be so stupid, quite smart in fact!  I pretty much did everything for our business website, even producing videos for all of our corporate clients’ catered company picnics. Works of art, with music and everything… whatever happened to that person? She is still here I know, but where?

Maybe it is the technical world that has changed so rapidly that my old body/brain just couldn’t keep up. Lordy, lordy, it took me till yesterday to get into my blog/website, ya I know, but it did! I’ve been down in the southern states for over two and a half weeks. I’ve been through hell and back, and that was just from the election.

It’s not my circus and not my monkeys but the line-up is looking more like monkeys in a circus every day. I’m going to try and refrain from comments about this sad state of affairs, but it’s not going to be easy. It’s “The Apprentice” all over again, but the players will now have the future of our world in their hands… WOW. Beam me up Scottie, I’m not sure I want to watch this play out. Can we change the channel?

I promised myself to keep my opinions to myself and it was also advised to me to do so, but … but… shouldn’t we stand up and be counted? The people in Germany gave carte’ blanche to Hitler and he murdered over one million innocent people just because they were Jewish. I know this is an extreme case BUT, letting one person dictate to all people, with ominous threats of retribution … really?

Just be a good person, this is how I was brought up, and I hope I instilled this in my kids.  Here I am off-track again, how did looking for a techie person lead me into the German concentration camps? I dunno, oh look, a butterfly. My mind is alive with so many scenarios that it is hard to keep track sometimes. It’s a good thing I have no trouble sleeping, and it just occurred to me that maybe my brain needs that rest, let alone trying to cope with techie stuff right?

Living without a paid Internet service has its own set of problems, but I make it work. It took me a while to get service this morning on my Saskatchewan, Sasktel phone plan, but here I am. I use my phone ‘hotspot’ for my internet on my computer down here, as well as at home. For sixty to seventy dollars a month, I have unlimited data. I can make calls, text and use my ‘hotspot’ for streaming my favorite radio station from home, ’93 Cool’ from Saskatoon. gotta love it, eh? The Sunday morning ‘sock hop’ always gives me a lift from whatever funk I am in… lol.

So back to the techie problems, I seem to have most of them ironed out, maybe I don’t need one after all. I’m actually feeling pretty good this morning, my first morning outside on my patio. This is what gives me the most pleasure (other than ….. ;  ) this is what it’s all about. Being able to express my thoughts on paper/computer, out on my patio, at the lake, or down here in the peaceful morning sun (no snow). I’m going to hate it if I have to go home, but we do what we gotta do, to survive.

So forget about the techie person I guess, I seem to be able to overcome most of these issues given time. I do need a plumber though, I need to trek all the way to the front of my place, to use my second bathroom. First-world problems I know, but when you are old, these trips are much more frequent and always at night. It’s like trekking to ‘The Summit’ a new show which I love btw. It’s after Survivor… check it out.

So no Techie for me unless Tom Selleck is a techie, which I doubt. Ah well, at least I get to see him in this last season of Blue Bloods. Oh, and I also get free TV down here, thirty-five channels from the antenna on my roof. Thirty of them are Spanish and none are Canadian, but I’m a survivor and I’ll get through this… oh look, a butterfly….

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November 15th, 2024