Barbara J. Hamby

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A Day of Ice and Skaters

I did not expect to be marooned by ice when the championship skaters were performing here in Portland. However, I’m grateful that I didn’t splurge and buy a ticket. I so enjoy watching the skaters on television and can see them from all angles without dealing with crowds, rude drivers, etc. Nevertheless, I’m happy to see that their audience is… click here to continue

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January, 15th, 2005

Aging in the Computer Age

Instead of griping all the time about all the glitches my computer challenges me with, I guess I ought to express some gratitude for the good things about it.

Looking up obscure events or people just takes a few keyboard strokes and/or mouse clicks. Information from all over the world is available on the web. We don’t have to dust… click here to continue

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January, 14th, 2005

The Achers

My partner, Al, and I are both seventy-five years old. It’s good that we can relate to each other’s aches and pains, and old memories. However, some days one or the other or both of us, feel as if we’re carrying the combined 150 years of age.

This morning he asked me if I ever felt like turning the… click here to continue

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January, 13th, 2005

The Lost is Found

I found my flash drive today. I picked up a tissue box and something rattled inside. There it was! How it got there I’ll never know. But now that I’ve found it and smoothed out all the wrinkles in both computers (or so I thought), I can’t connect to Broadband. There’s always something, it seems, to keep this old brain… click here to continue

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January, 12th, 2005

Instructions on How to Write Instructions

If I weren’t so old and lazy, I’d start what I consider to be a badly needed service. That is, translation of instructions furnished with computer software into a format recognizable by those of us whose birth predated computers.

Last night I uninstalled the anti-virus software in my notebook computer because the subscription had expired and my ISP (that’s internet… click here to continue

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January, 11th, 2005

Winning the Trojan War (Maybe)

In all the struggles with the Trojan Vundo virus, I failed to notice that a function of my anti-virus software had been turned off. I didn’t turn it off. I suppose its possible I never turned it on, but my paranoia leads me to think a purveyor of viruses actually turned it off.

Anyway, today that useful little tool has… click here to continue

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January, 10th, 2005

Trojan War, 21st Century Style

Didn’t get any writing done today (yesterday, now I guess) because I have been riding a Trojan horse chasing Trojan Vundo viruses. My son-in-law was here to help earlier and we thought we had killed them dead. They must carry those portable resuscitators because as soon as my knight in shining armor left, they rose to fight again.

I have… click here to continue

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January, 10th, 2005

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