Technology Challenges and Cinderella

Hey

        Another rainy day in middle of nowhere Georgia! Thank goodness Ronald plants his gardens in raised beds, or you would be hearing wails of anguish all the way to Cameroon! Nothing better come between that man and his fresh produce!

        I’ll get right to the Grammie Rant of the day –

        My mama gets bored. All she has the energy to do is read. I thought if I got a DVD player, she could watch something other than Fox News … that is if she hasn’t accidently changed the channel to CNN! Argh!

        I went to Walmart to get a DVD player.

As an aside, it’s a cryin’ shame when a body has a good hair day and the only place to go in town is Walmart! And it was spritzing mist and me without my umbrella!

Anyway, I got one of the better DVD blue-ray players figuring at the rate I’m goin’, Mama is going to outlive me. I even bought a two- year warranty. I got it home and was going to register the product online.

Didn’t happen.

In the first place, the computer site wouldn’t allow me to put in any numbers or letters in the correct place. My next step was instant chat with agent Darshena. Bless her heart! She wanted to know the serial number.

Now by all accounts, I’m as close to as blind as a bat as I care to get. I was able to find my strongest glasses and a kiddie magnifying glass from the toy drawer. I took the player from the box and tried to read the numbers. No kidding! They were this small abcdefg or smaller and all squished together! Seriously, the jumbled letters and numbers had to be smaller than that because I can read what I just wrote. Without a magnifying glass!

Dear Darshena kept telling me to try again. She wanted me to take a picture of the bar code on the back with my camera and send it to her. And how the heck does she expect me to do that? I don’t have a clue where the cord is to connect my phone to transfer the picture to an email on my computer – which is the only way I know how. Sending a picture from my phone to anything but a text message is above my ability or pay grade!

After three or four attempts, I gave her a different number that was on the box that said it too was the serial number. When she told me that was wrong as well, I told her ‘thank you very kindly, ma’am’ – or something to that effect. I quit the chat and came to a great realization ­–

Old Ladies

Should Not Be Involved in Technology

in Any Way, Shape, or Form!

After another trip to the store for the connecting HMDI? Or is it HDMI?? cord that was not included in the package, (Samsung didn’t even list what was in the box or what was needed on the outside of the package! How was I to know???!) we finally plugged the dang thing in.

I put in a Drew Barrymore version of Cinderella. It’s a sweet story line with phenomenal costumes, so I thought Mama would really enjoy it. The first scene wasn’t even over until my dear mama says, “I can’t understand a single word they’re saying!”

I turned it off.

She’ll have to just watch Fox News. Or CNN. I’ll put the DVD player away until she passes – along with the foot massager I got her for her aching feet that she won’t use. Or the exerciser to strengthen her knees. Or … you get the idea.

I’m not really a grump, just lettin’ you know! I would hate to have my letters paint me as complaining or critical.

As I told the pastor the other day, I’m a parishioner that doesn’t need mollycoddling. Perhaps he disagrees. He sent me an LOL. Not sure what he meant by that. But I think I need to re-message him. It’s not that I need special attention … it’s just a fact that he well knows – it’s my way or the highway! Hmmm. Maybe that’s why he put the LOL.

Maybe not a grump or a complainer – maybe just an ‘elderly spinner of tales’.

Blessings

                                        Kara Beth

I found 2 verses that were relevant.

At one I cringed. The other gives me hope.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Don’t be quick to become angry because

anger abides in the bosom of fools.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

PS This is a word of Wisdom in case you didn’t know – caregivers are not perfect. We do get our panties in a knot, but I pray that God gives us all grace.