Ye gads, if I had know what my darling elder brother had gotten me into with me agreeing to teach my father about computers and internet, I would have skedaddled far, far and very far away. Or at least found a way for the berk to teach father himself.
Although they say I am very tech savvy - which is an oxymoron if I ever heard one, if I think about me and numbers, today my patience was truly stretched to the limit.
Didn't help I had to teach on an prehistoric laptop with a Windows XP on - don't get me wrong, I have nothing against XP series - in fact, when I first begun to work on one, it was a speedy move from 'good' '98 to 'great' XP, as it was simply better - if not in programs, then in uploading and resolution. Through the years I survived many uploads and downloads of the Windows programs, be it to upgrade something, twice or thrice it was because of the system crashdown and sometimes, it was just a maintenance and because we switched the hard drives - the old with newer ones. And sometimes was just becasue my dear older sibling was being a bitch and punted me off to learn how to do the geeky things. Not up to his knowledge, but some basics and tricks, that he had to literally bash into my poor head. When I was truly interested in something, we advanced from:" /heavy sigh.../ Look, I will explain it to you once more..." to opened door, messy hair through it and "Ask Uncle Google." and then closed and locked door and me standing in the front of the self same door, staring disbelievingly at the door's wood.
Apparently he deemed me knowledgeable enough to teach my dad - ahem, he was just a lazy bastard - and while I was already teaching mom, it was a short leap to rope me into father's tech education as well.
I was greatly enjoying my stint on my laptop with Windows 7, when father barges in and announces he wants to be taught how to operate the computer.
And I, gentle soul like I am, agreed.
And it come to four hours of massacring technical jargon and trying to get his whiny ass used to the new Firefox browser - he constantly grumbles that the old one was better - bitch, I had to get used to working with many other browsers and I didn't whine half as much as he did, because sometimes you gotta do with what you have, if you don't have what you need. Although my college had state of the art classrooms, we still had Windows XP, even when Windows 7 was happily purring away his little programs on my laptop. Back to my father. He whined about this and that and really, I began to wonder if it ever was a good idea to teach him how to man the computer. Not that he can't, but he is really stubborn on some instances. And it doesn't help the Godzilla he has in use is really prehistoric laptop that is slo-o-o-w. I had done some of my work on it when my laptop was away for the repairs, and it wasn't nearly as slow as it's now, so I wonder if my brother didn't dismantle some of my tweaks. Ah, well, will care some other time about that.
My beta is somewhat hibernating away. Or something in that effect, and I just gotta get to learn Anatomy.
On the brighter side, I did both of the exams with high scores, and I am righteously smug about it.
Mwahaha.
Signing off,
Eirenei
PS: Brother so owes me a good smoothie for my troubles now.../grumbles/
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