What I'm Doing Now 2000Well, the Millennium came and went and life didn't change a whole lot. The ATMs kept pumping out money, grocery stores did not run out of basic supplies other the the wave of last minute "stock up just in case" customers. The Internet ran on as planned. There were Millennium parties in real time and on the Internet that lasted on through the night as we waited to see if everything would grind to a stop at the stroke of midnight. There was even a little bit of disappointment as nothing happened. No lights flickered, no credit cards were refused, Internet servers did not crash or even slow down ..... the world as we knew it, did not end. I now work part time for our local Internet Service Provider. I learn lots of new things there and look forward to learning lots more. It is a small company which is nice because we know all the employees and get to call the boss by his first name. Being the oldest person there is a little strange, especially when some of the younger guys know so much more about things. They are pretty good at explaining in words of one syllable most of the time though. We get along for the most part and practical jokes are always something to look forward to. I've moved up to Windows ME and will stop there, from support calls I have taken and from what I can see, XP has nothing for me. I tried my hand at Linux [ Red Hat 7.0, of course ... cute little penguin ] and while I will probably never get good enough to program, it is fun to use. I hope to get a better grip on it as time goes by. I dumped the Visual Basic, decided I was right the first time when I said that I didn't want to be the person who made the programa, it is enough to use them and appreciate their creators Sad to say, my son did not have a "happy ever after" marriage. While I do have a beautiful little granddaughter, the marriage went south. Hopefully they will work things out to where they can still be friends and we can still be a part of his daughter's life. Sometimes things are not always what they seem and in this case, neither and both are at fault. They both feared being alone and thought that and a good friendship was enough. Unfortunately, they soon realized that, although they still did not want to be alone, they did not want to be together either and have separated. As I said, neither one and both are to blame.At the very least, it takes two to make a mistake. |