Carrying on

I guess that what I bought was an app that enables me to write my blog now that the Blogger system is not working. I don't know what is happening, but I'm trying to work my way out of the dark. I thought I was going to have to start a new blog, but it appears that what I wrote on the new app was entered on my 'West Commences' site. It's all a mystery. I feel like one of the creatures in "2001 Space Odyssey," slowly and tentatively approaching the monolith.

My journey to enlightenment began about a week ago when the iPad May had given me when they first arrived in Canada died a slow and frustrating, for me, death. I went in search of help to the Best Buy where Jay had bought the iPhone he gave me for Christmas. The kids who work there are smart and helpful. They sold me an iPad Air that had been a display model for a really good price and then helped me set it up and showed me a lot of tricks. I felt empowered with technological know how, until my new iPhone lost its mind a few days later. As I was trying to order an app for it, the screen went black and a small grey circle began to rotate in the middle of it. In spite of all my new knowledge, I could do nothing. So I left it to see if time really can heal all wounds. It can't. I awoke the next morning to the same grey spinning, tried to ignore it, walked to Tai Chi seeking solace in Oriental exercise, returned home feeling moderately blissful, packed up the iPhone and drove to Best Buy where the excellent staff showed me the easy trick that cures Alzheimer's in iPhones. I felt buoyant again. I'd learned another techie trick. Now I would buy a keyboard for the new iPad and carry on up. Yesterday I sat down proudly to write a blog on the new keyboard and iPad. The first time I hit the comma key, the screen bounced back to the home page. When this happened a third time, I felt as flat as a Dali clock. It was all I could do to straighten myself up and take the keyboard back to the store, where I was only slightly inflated to discover that the same thing happened for the young and savvy clerk. He determined that the keyboard couldn't sync with my iPad and took the former back. This morning I was preparing to search for a compatible keyboard when the thought struck me that the fault might be with the iPad. Eurika!! I was right. So I went back to my new best friends at Best Buy to return the iPad. The girl there had one of her many brilliant ideas. What if the problem was with the Blogger site? So I tried to write a blog on my iPhone. Bang! As soon as I hit the comma key, I was bounced back to my home page. She helped me download a new app, and now I'm trying to figure out how it works.
Hurray! Jay just stopped by for a visit. I can stop writing about my tech school of hard knocks, all of which I've done using only my right thumb, which means that on top of it all I've become ambidextrous. Tomorrow I'll buy a keyboard and see if I can get even closer to touching the monolith.



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