Thursday, February 20, 2014

Tech Smart



February 20, 2014

Social media scares me. I am lucky to have texting capability on my cell phone, let alone navigating FB, Tweet, play the LinkedIn game, and check my four email address’ “In” boxes. Getting an updated photograph that doesn’t resemble Bob Barker (sorry Bob, no offense) is a challenge. Writing blogs, newsletters, texts, emails, and class material is the easy part. The bookkeeping, attachments, links, posts, ad pop-ups, Google followers, friending, ebook, calendar, scheduling, project recovery, contracts, accepting new friends, auto replys, and fetching a hot cup of tea in between, is more than my furry assistant can handle. Guess I have to raise the stakes.

Keeping my phone and ipod charged and cleaning the cat litter box is overwhelming at times. I got my SUV stuck, careening out of the driveway yesterday. Yes, I am freed, at the moment. Just took a bit of shoveling, language that sent the neighbor kids home, and some aggressive rocking, to release the tire from the high snow bank. Guess I should have hacked more at the ice divots in the area between the sidewalk and street. The Saint Paul City plow creates a dugout and I am out of steam, after piling snow up and over my shoulder height for an hour and a half, only to jab at the built-up ice.

Ken, the neighbor quite a ways down the block, was out, sprinkling de-ice granules. He said he had taken a flying leap, landing on his tailbone at the bottom of his wooden stairs by the garage. The cement doesn’t help, nor does wearing cowboy boots. “Fashion before practicality!” I cheered.

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