23rd November Living in another world


 Older adult man using iphone and headphones 

For 99.9% of my life I can get by perfectly well without owning or should that be using a mobile / smart phone. I don't miss using one and am quite happy not to have my hand moulded in that ubiquitous shape as its clutches onto its 'life support' machine.

And then there is the 0.01% of my life when I realise that I am living in another world to the rest of the general population. An example of which is trying to join What's Upp so that I can keep in touch with one of my running groups. Quite why we have to communicate in this way I don't really know but it appears we do. 

Now I know for most tech savvy folks that would literally be as easy as clicking a button, inputting a password made up of numbers and letter or scanning a QR code but when those things don't ever crop up in your day life well things aren't quite that simple. 

Between us TOM and I are less technologcal than an average 6 year old and so despite being able to download the software app we then hit a virtual wall of not being able to complete the next set of instructions even with the 'help' of various Youtube videos and on line help pages. 

Soit looks like I will be the source of mirth and merriment at the staff team meeting on Tuesday when I seek help to enter the 21st century. 

 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

6th May Olbia

Image
  A chance to stretch our legs today with our first port of call; Olbia, Sardinia. And it was a quick stretch too due to it being only a five hour stay. Up bright and early, so early in fact that the hot food at the buffet wasn't even ready to be served. Still it gave us a chance to watch the ship glide into port past a host of oyster/mussel beds, before performing a 180 degree turn to reverse into it's berth. A couple of short bus rides later and we were in downtown Olbia. But there an hour or so before anything appeared to open, the disadvantage of being early birds and something we don't seem to learn! Not that Olbia had a great deal to see or maybe if we had done the slightest bit of planning beforehand there might have benn but we didn't. It was pleasant enough but that's about it. It was pleasant enough but nothing special, indeed we were back on the ship after just a couple of hours ashore and then managed to sleep away most of th...
Read more

7th May Naples

Image
 I'm sure I've heard the phrase 'see Naples and die' suggesting that it is perhaps not the nicest location in the Mediterranean but if it's good enough for Diego Maradona fir a few years then it's good enough for me for 10 hours. Although the millions of tax free pounds he was paid might have eased his stay. By the time we got up, washed, dressed and up to The Kitchens, the rest of the ship were already there. Compared to the Marie Celeste of yesterday it was absolutely packed, presumably with people having breakfast before heading out on 8am excursions, our excursion was simply going to be the city of Naples itself as possible trips to Vesuvius, Pompei or the Amalfi coast would have been too much / tired.  So on a day when the weather initially seemed uncertain, we jumped aboard route A for the Hop on Hop off bus and headed out into the mayhem that is the Napoli traffic where it was every van, car and scooter for the selves. I think it's bes...
Read more