Out of Service….My computer and me
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 28-11-2012
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This web site has been down for almost a week due to having to wait on a new modem. I could not connect to the Internet and I sorely missed it. So nothing has been written for several days now. I was so full of Thanksgiving turkey and dressing, etc, that it is probably better that I did not write. I guess you could say that both the computer and me were out of service. Also, I had another birthday during that period and now I am — years old. I wonder if the clerks at stores would check my id if I tried to buy alcohol or tobacco. I’ll bet they would because I don’t think I really look to be — years old. However, I am guilty of looking in the mirror and wondering who that old fart is looking back at me. I really don’t feel — years old either. Geez, and next year I will be –. Well, the old fingers still respond on the keyboard to the thoughts arising in the old head, so thats something, huh? Yeah, I thought so too….Pete
Having computer problems! Call IT! That’s the way I do it at work. If I am at home. I just give the thing a swift kick in the butt and go back to the trusty ole pencil and notepad. That’s the way I preferred to do it back when the Y2K (or the year 2000) problem was all over the internet. Just pull the plug on it and pick up the trusty pencil and paper. Get the ole trusty sliderule which is probably so warped that it won’t slide anymore. I still pick up my trusty K&E occasionally just to make sure that it will still slide freely. Who knows? Never can tell when it might again be useful. They even put calculators in telephones now, but, if the battery is dead, the calculator is useless. The ole pencil and paper with a little figuring can’t be beat. It doesn’t take long to realize that we really haven’t come that far in this world with all our technology and smart brains. I wonder how far I’d get with our new 2013 Mercedes Benz if Iran did decide to loose its missiles with its nuclear devices, zapping all computers, especially the one in my Mercedes Benz. I may be thankful for my trusty ole bicycle then. At least, it will work if I can still work. Computers are nice, but we better watch out how we depend on them.
True about the pen and paper….However, I prefer the computer to anything I have tried so far. But if I have to use pen and paper, I still can. Now, if I need to cipher, then I might have a small problem as I never learned to use the old slide rule and I am a little to old to start now at — years of age.
No one is ever too old to begin to learn, whether it is about slide rules, computers, or about the real life after this one, unless, and until, he is actually dead, then he may be too old. Learning is the fountain of youth. When learning ceases, the aging process begins, building rapidly, encompassing all life, until death destroys all. This is Hell, my friend! Learning is the mechanism used by Christ to conquer death forever on Calvary. He kept learning, and learning, and learning, demonstrating how, if we do the same, we can do it too; consequently death is not the end, but the beginning of a great new life for which we were created.
My wife works in the Hospice in Bryant, Arkansas. She has noticed that, as long as her patients are learning, are pecking away at their computers, are reading books, and are using pen and paper, their minds are eternally active and an eternal youthfulness is a part of their very being. It is only when they lose all interest in all of these things and learning in general, that they begin to go down the steep incline of death, and death and dispair envelopes their being. Learning is the fountain of youth, and it is the key to Heaven. This is the reason that Jesus of Nazareth was the smartest boy of his day (he debated with the best of men.) This is the reason he grew up to be the smartest man of his day, and of every day thereafter, because he never ceased to learn. His continued learning about His Father in Heaven overcame death on Calvary as it will for us as well.
Ok, I’ll keep learning, but forget the slide rule, no interest at all……I’ll just have to get a solar panel for my computer….
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