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These chips will be the end of me
Aug. 14th, 2018 05:05 pmI have other crackers (salty snacks) and yet I still bought a bag of baked bbq flavored potato chips on Sunday. I held off until today to open them. Half the bag is gone, but to be fair, that isn't much. Can't stop eating them!
Yesterday was my mom's 75th birthday. We celebrated last Friday when I was in town. My mom avoided technology for the most part most of her life. Even at work (she was a nurse) she would only use computers when absolutely necessary, and would try to get others to do it for her if possible. She was the first in my family to get a cell phone way back in 2000 or 2001, but that was in the days where cell phones only made calls. When she had a Razr, it was always a chore for her to figure out listening to voicemail or finding people's numbers. Several years ago, my brother almost bought her a laptop, but later got her an iPad instead. Good thing, as she would not be able to handle a PC. Actually, she has a PC, but mentioned giving it to my sister. Something about she never uses it. My sister said something about needing it to print stuff. So yeah, Mom LOVES her iPad. However, she is still pretty tech-limited. She really has no idea the difference between apps and web pages through Safari or Chrome. She asked me the other day basically how to bookmark sites. Well, because she does most things through apps, those can't be bookmarked. Even on a web browser, she looks mostly at store or shopping websites. So, I showed her how to bookmark pages, but the only examples I could find was, for example, if she liked a bedspread she saw on the Pottery Barn website. I also had to teach her why when she deletes threads of emails, it asks if she wants to delete all messages. The next night, she asked me to show her how to bookmark again, but she was trying to do it in her email. Sigh.
Still eating the chips.
( Meme going around... )
Yesterday was my mom's 75th birthday. We celebrated last Friday when I was in town. My mom avoided technology for the most part most of her life. Even at work (she was a nurse) she would only use computers when absolutely necessary, and would try to get others to do it for her if possible. She was the first in my family to get a cell phone way back in 2000 or 2001, but that was in the days where cell phones only made calls. When she had a Razr, it was always a chore for her to figure out listening to voicemail or finding people's numbers. Several years ago, my brother almost bought her a laptop, but later got her an iPad instead. Good thing, as she would not be able to handle a PC. Actually, she has a PC, but mentioned giving it to my sister. Something about she never uses it. My sister said something about needing it to print stuff. So yeah, Mom LOVES her iPad. However, she is still pretty tech-limited. She really has no idea the difference between apps and web pages through Safari or Chrome. She asked me the other day basically how to bookmark sites. Well, because she does most things through apps, those can't be bookmarked. Even on a web browser, she looks mostly at store or shopping websites. So, I showed her how to bookmark pages, but the only examples I could find was, for example, if she liked a bedspread she saw on the Pottery Barn website. I also had to teach her why when she deletes threads of emails, it asks if she wants to delete all messages. The next night, she asked me to show her how to bookmark again, but she was trying to do it in her email. Sigh.
Still eating the chips.
( Meme going around... )
