[stylist] Slate and Style

Wed Jul 29 04:26:58 UTC 2015

My husband can't teach me. heree wants it done EXACTLY as he says but I do a bit of exploring or my fingers go faster than my brain and I miss the thing he wants me to enter on. I can sit down and learn a piece of technology pretty quickly. Funny. In 1999 when I first got my computer I was scared to death of the thing. I think I only used it for a word processor for a year or so before I got brave enough to do more. Now, there's no stopping me and I'm pretty fearless ... but very careful. My husband did explain about not opening some emails and other things not to do to avoid viruses, which I foblow. I'm good at learning from others' mistakes.
Barbara

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> On Jul 28, 2015, at 09:24, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Sem,
> 
> Yes, we seem to be in a general age bracket, smile. I'm mid-30's now. My
> husband is the kind of person who can sit down and teach himself a new
> device or computer program. Me, not so much. I make Ross learn things first,
> then teach me, grin. And he enjoys learning new technology and doesn't
> always understand why I don't get it quicker. But to his credit, he's a
> great teacher, and I learned how to use JAWS and my computer much better
> working with Ross than I did during Center training, go figure, smile. He
> was just able to teach me in a style that works best for me. But it's great
> to have someone who understand, or can understand, this stuff. For others
> like me, so much seems non-user friendly. And things change so much, so
> frequently, I find it difficult to keep up. Anyone notice how many writers
> find it difficult and/or tedious to deal with technology? LOL
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] Slate and Style
> 
> LOL I agree. Progress is definitely not always better. We have been pulling
> our hair out over computer stuff today with updates that force themselves
> and don't work bla bla bla. LOL. My point about progress was merely that
> often we don't have a choice. Sad but true, but it's marvelous of the
> leadership team here to work with checks. Just saying I do understand when
> people don't due to some things being easier. I went with some of the
> progression things I was resisting when it frankly became harder for me not
> to do so. And Brigit, we are of a similar age, it seems, and I also didn't
> start emailing until my early 20's.Like 24 to be precise. LOL. Actually I
> still know how to do little else. Sadly these days things are not made user
> friendly.  We were having trouble doing basic stuff with our friend's cell
> phone this weekend because the voice mails he'd just gotten somehow were in
> the way to doing basic things. Fun. LOL. I went into one of my comedic rants
> about how cordless phones worked the same way but were actually more
> convenient and these cell phones have too many features, aren't on the back
> burner in case you want them, but are in the way, and makes everything
> harder to learn. I'm sure many people will disagree, but the point is it's
> not user  friendly for all these  days which is sadly frustrating. LOL. To
> me more complex and frustrating isn't necessarily progress. LOL.
> Sem
> I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
> I get along with the voices inside of my head. 
> 
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