Did I ever mention that I am totally techo-girl? Seriously. I have been using computers for 8 to 12 hours a day for more than 30 years and I can do just about anything that a computer can do. All different kinds of computers, all different types of programs, all different websites. On one job, I literally had three different models of computers on my desk and I used them all at once sometimes - I looked like Captain Nemo with that crazy pipe organ.

I was thinking about that today as I was at work having my usual technology fest. I was E-mailing, faxing, IM-ing, texting, spreadsheeting, databasing, and using two different custom software packages to do my invoices not to mention jumping back and forth through half a dozen websites, all while taking multiple calls on both my desk phone and my cell phone. Then I go home to my blogs and my Facebook and my Twitter. Not to mention my Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar and the occasional computer game. Oh and I just discovered iGoogle (sigh).

No wonder I'm exhausted! With all this technology in my face almost 24 hours a day, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. Oh.my.gosh! I think I need to go and spend about a month in the woods somewhere, far, far away from any technology whatsoever.

Yeah, like that's going to happen.

Fortunately, I do enjoy it, especially working with spreadsheets. I was telling someone the other day, I've literally been using Excel since BEFORE it was even invented. Yes, I am THAT old! I started out using an early ancestor of Excel called Visicalc. That was back in the day when there wasn't any such thing as a "personal" computer -you had one or two for the whole office and you had to reserve time to use it. Isn't it amazing how the technology has changed so drastically in just a generation or two? I think I had Blake using a computer before he was even two years old and now he Googles with the best of them. Really makes you wonder what things are going to be like when our kids and grandkids grow up? I don't think we can even imagine it.

Anyway, I'm going to go back and wallow in my technology some more. I just needed to whine about it for a while. On my blog - of course.





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