Richard and Nigel spent a lot of time doing that. It obviously worked or I wouldn't be posting this now. However, Richard says he thinks my Motherboard has just about had it, and he may be right. This computer has been messing around for ages.
I am very lucky to have Richard to keep nursing it along. When I get my first basic qualification as a CIW Associate, I should be able to earn a bit of money to get another one. In the meantime, God has been good to me in sending these two lovely lads to nurse it along.
I was abysmal at typing at school. We used the big old manual Olivettis and my fingers just wouldn't get used to it and I got the lowest possible mark of 0 to 19%. My typing teacher wrote on my report 'Sue has no talent for this subject whatsoever. However, she tries hard'. I reasoned that if ordinary typing was so problematic, there was no way I'd cope with a computer which was much more complicated.
I got this computer for my kids to do their homework on and they tried to teach me to use it but I had to ask them so much that they would get cross and say 'oh, come on mum. You can't be that thick. You're putting it on to wind us up!'
So I took myself off to Adult Education and did a very basic ABC course. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it so I followed up with an ECDL course. There are no further courses offered locally and of course I can't travel to lessons, so I have enrolled on a CIW course with the view to working from home. My health is more stable than it was but there is no way I could commit to a commute and the whole 9 to 5 thing. I need a quiet dimly lit room to work in (which an employer could not reasonably provide) and I need to work when I have energy. I function better in the afternoons and evenings, and I need frequent breaks because I can't sit for long.
If you would like to know more about the course I'm doing, look at www.CIWcertified.com.
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