I turned my furnace on. I'm one of those that usually holds out to the last possible day to turn on the heat and in the Spring, the AC. But today I was sitting around a lot (still busy)... but it felt cold... so.. I said, "What are you waiting for?" You need to be healthy. Then, I went and ate a piece of apple bread baked with cinnamon and pecans (and lots of brown sugar). Yeah, that was healthy.
I spent all day on the computer.
I even watched church on Facebook. It has been a long while since I have been in a congregate setting. Congregate is a new word for me. In looking at the covid counts each day, the site identifies that if there is a reason for an increase in numbers, it is because of a congregate setting. I never used that word before 2020. There are a number of words I learned this year. A new word to me was "uptick" in numbers. I didn't know numbers did an "uptick." But, I am not too old to learn.
That is why I am back in college. I was struggling. It took about three hours to get on the virtual site, get all the passwords straightened out, and finally access my eBook for one class. I was happy that one class has an old-fashioned paperback book. Well, I guess paperback books aren't old fashioned. Hardback books would be old-fashioned. Scrolls, now that would really be old fashioned. Anyway, I need the ebook for a computer class. I didn't realize the eBook didn't open automatically on the table of contents (something else old fashioned in books nowadays).... and it threw me into page 1-6. I didn't realize that there were about ten pages before that one.
Not page 1, but page 1-1, and 1-1a, and 1-1b, and a lot more 1- somethings before reaching page 1-6.
Here I was, starting the eBook on page 1-6. I was trying to read this computer language. In the second sentence, the book says, "Look at the ribbon." Well, I looked for a ribbon... everywhere. I didn't see a ribbon or anything that looked like a ribbon. The ribbon--that's the little line along the top of a computer screen that holds all those little symbols that you never know what they all do. I found out because I had to google "ribbon" to get past the second sentence on the page. Then, the third sentence hit me. Finally, I realized there were pages in front of this one. And lo and behold, on page 1, there was a legend, like on a map, showing what all the symbols were, INCLUDING what the ribbon was.
Ribbon, used in that sense, is a new word for me. 2020 has taught me a lot. Sometimes, I learn the hard way.
No, I didn't get through the first chapter. After finding page 1, I snipped the first chapter into a Word document, and I am going to print it all out tomorrow. You know, paper... like you hold in your hand and read.... not some silly words on a screen, but something tangible. Why? Why would I do that? Because I hate to work with a split screen. And, chapter 1 has all the definitions, and a legend that will show me where to look for everything. I can keep that chapter close in hand while i read and look at the computer.
I can do this.... it might take a while, but I can do this.
. I don’t live alone, but pretty much in the same boat as far as grandkids go and that part is, indeed hard. My husband and I will be married 53 years in April and I love him deeply but...! I don’t know if people will understand this or not. His being here with me is very comforting, but it’s not like we jibber jabber all day and night anymore 
! My single friends don’t call me or ask me to go many places because they feel like they are “interrupting!” As they put it. God knows what they must think we are doing that they would be interrupting 
