Congratulations

I just got off the phone with Leah the Linksys Lady. I always feel a little sick when I call tech people. It's the sensation of impotency that comes with needing something from a world that seems almost extraterrestrial - and thus needing someone else to go in and get it for you.

Forking over my credit card details so that some unknown entity could remotely access my computer was intense. But the Linksys Lady solved my issues, and as I watched her click around on my laptop and type codes with lots of periods into fields that I didn't even know existed (let alone what the eff they mean) - I watched my investment pay off.

When my Google page appeared - to replace that most odious of pages: "You are not connected to the Internet" - I exclaimed, It's up! It's up! and Leah said, Congratulations. And I really did feel like a new mother.

At least for this little Late Adopter, high tech is as mysterious as the birds and the bees.