The full circle

Finally the wheel of life has completed a circle, not in any way fatal, but back to the beginnig. I first used a primitive computer back in the 1950’s, and bought one for home use in the 1970’s. By then we had three daughters, all of whom became familiar with the primitive machine. As the years moved on the world of technology moved further and further away from me, but the young fluorished. So I now have children and grand children working with all the latest applications, while to me. e-mail and facebook are as far as I normally go.

II do receive some encouragement from the young, I was given a Garmin watch for my birthday last year, which I have partially mastered, but I have trouble downloading it to my computer. Judy and Harry also passed on to me the I Phone that they had replaced with an up to date version, and I purchased an instruction ghubook with lots of pages that I have not read. Yesterday, oldest daughter Judy was competing in the Ottawa Iron Man a mixture of swimming, biking and running, which requires an incredible degree of fitness. I assumed that I would be able to watch her progress over the twelve hour period somehow, and sent a “help me” request to my children and grand children. One of them told me to “download an app” on my Iphone. So I tried to do it , and amazingly enough I found myself on an IPhone Ironman site wzperience in here I could keep track of Judy’s

An hour or two later Ireceived a call from a daughter who had 30 years expeerience teaching computer stuff asking if I could tell her how Judy was doing. I felt truly empowered that it was actually assumed that I had found out how to find out.

By the way Judy came second out of 51 in the 60 t0 65 age group, an even greater achievemrnt than mine!