And I'll never forget what my son said when he heard I was still using AOL dial up,(this conversation took place WAY before I got the Verizon DSL.

He said to me "You use AOL??, that's for dummies" I said 'what do you use?" and he starts spouting, "Well, I have a cable modem, I also purchased a specific router, and I use Mozilla, or firefox: or whatever the hell he was talking about. Then he started in on Secure Browsers, and Firewalls AND THAT DID IT FOR ME.

Guess what?? I learned about DSL, I learned aout Firewalls, and Security.

I LEARNED!!! I just have to learn it in baby steps.

Take for example the first time I got a computer in the workplace. It was an IBM desktop with a dot matrix printer and we used Multi-mate advantage software. The hard drive was a whopping 20 mgs. Can you believe this?

Now I didn't know a hardware from a software in those days. They sent me to computer school and I learned multimate. I believe it was one of the first original word processing softwares. I learned to mail merge, wrap around text, etc. etc.

So I was in the elevator speaking to two other secretaries and they were talking about using a keyboard and I piped in. What do you use the F10 key for? and they both answered "DEPENDS ON THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE USING?"

You never saw such a confused Melody getting off that elevator. Of course I had only learned about one word processing software (MultiMate) and the operating system was DOS.

So I'm going home saying to myself "There's more than one use for the F10 key"???? I'll never forget that if I live to be 100.

And look at me now!!! Almost 60 and learning about Wi-Fi.

Now how cool is that????

melody