No – I am not about to punch my monitor, but I am so frustrated with the theme have been using for years. I used to love the theme, but then the company got sold, which is a modern thing that happens, and like many of the things that I was with for a while when they get sold – annoying things happen.

For a while I wasn’t having too much of an issue with it but of late I am – and so I think I am canceling my subscription.

What I’m using today is actually a free WordPress developed theme. We’ll see how that works.

I was always into modern technology. As a kid I wanted that Dick Tracy watch – I probably had a toy watch that I could talk to and do all those things with – now I don’t have a toy.

I now have a smartwatch. And yes, I can actually talk on it!!

And my phone? I rarely use it for phone calls but if I want to, I can see people on it when I talk to them – just like the old science fiction comic books, watches, and phones.

The first computer I actually had anything to do with was [I’m guessing] an IBM that took up a whole basement of a building in Boston and I was working with one of my grad school professors helping do the data analysis for one of his research projects.

Someone did the key punching. I don’t type so I would never offer to do that, but then the punched cards were fed into this huge machine, which did “stuff” with them. Somebody else programmed the computer and then at the other end after some amount of time, reams of green computer paper came spewing out of the computer and it was my job to do something with all of the info coming out of the computer.

I laugh now because I used to be very good at math and data analysis and now we have programs that give you all the answers. You don’t have to use your brain much anymore.

And that’s my love/hate situation with technology. I am at the point in my life where I no longer want to do all of the basic stuff myself. I don’t want to code. I don’t want to go under the hood and have to figure out all the things about making it work. I guess the saying is: been there done that.

It’s like with cars. I used to know how to work on engines because my father insisted I know how to do that before I was allowed to take the car out on my own – because he knew that I would be driving places where I wasn’t going to be near service stations. So I could do a lot of basic engine work. I’ve had cars as a grown-up that needed things done that I could do.

Now? I take it to the service station because it’s all computerized and I won’t fiddle with them anymore.

So I don’t hate technology. I’ve always loved it. I just hate when it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do, but that’s more me than the technology. One thing I’ve learned since I started fiddling around with computers is that they have times they don’t do what they’re supposed to do, but then neither do people. [I do have a Ph.D. in Psychology.]

I’ve learned what happens in those times is I take a break: from the people, from the computers, from the cars, etc – and now I’m going to go out and play in my garden because for me, that’s a good break from technology.