A good twenty minutes
September 6th 2006 07:22
I’ve just had a good 20 minutes. No, nothing too exotic happens to a “fifty-something” married woman living on a farm. The old saying that you have to find your own fun still applies to this old bird. So I went looking for things on the Web. Actually I was looking for jobs for my son – OK he’s got one – at last, but a mother can still look to see what is out there!
Anyway – back to my good twenty minutes. First of all, I found you! – Yes – your wonderful web site with all its stories and musings. And guess what? It downloaded really quickly! When one is unable to get broadband and the satellite dish for computer use is still a way off dream, – (we have one for the footy of course – let’s get the priorities right) - it is good not to have to hang around for twenty minutes to be able to read a story.
I will only wait that long for the bank statements. Do you get those wonderful letters from your bank telling you to save the trees and do all banking on-line? So, every time I want to check if there is any money in the account I have to dial up, log on, wait for all the bank’s fancy hieroglyphics to make their way onto the screen and then hopefully get the information I am looking for – waiting of course about twenty minutes for it all to fall into place?!!! No thank you! At least with a paper statement I can bemoan the state of the farm finances in a minute or two and then get back to my life. I might even have time to plant some trees!
“My good 20 minutes” – yes this is all related. You see, when I do all this confounded waiting for my bank to stop employing frustrated graphic artists and just get their web pages up there on the screen, I play the card games kindly donated to us by Microsoft - no doubt placed there to ensure we don’t stuff up the system by pressing the “Enter” button a hundred times while we wait. I have three games I play – Solitaire (of course), Freecell and Spider Solitaire. The challenge is to get all three games out the first time around. Of course with Solitaire you can’t start again which is the real challenge, but with the other two you can. So you see if you manage to get Solitaire out the first game you play and the other two games completed successfully without having to start again, then it’s a really good twenty minutes. And if you can do it before the bank statement comes up you haven’t wasted any time at all – have you? Anyway what else does a fifty something farmer’s wife have to do – except perhaps light the fires, weed the garden, feed the chooks, feed the lambs, help move a mob of sheep and oh yes – cook tea. So today all the games were played successfully the first time around – I am invincible!! Mind you, the bank’s web page still hadn’t finished down loading so it wouldn’t have mattered if I had had to start again. So I’ve decided not to look at the bank statement tonight – that would just be too depressing. It can wait for another twenty minutes when I have nothing better to do.
Anyway – back to my good twenty minutes. First of all, I found you! – Yes – your wonderful web site with all its stories and musings. And guess what? It downloaded really quickly! When one is unable to get broadband and the satellite dish for computer use is still a way off dream, – (we have one for the footy of course – let’s get the priorities right) - it is good not to have to hang around for twenty minutes to be able to read a story.
“My good 20 minutes” – yes this is all related. You see, when I do all this confounded waiting for my bank to stop employing frustrated graphic artists and just get their web pages up there on the screen, I play the card games kindly donated to us by Microsoft - no doubt placed there to ensure we don’t stuff up the system by pressing the “Enter” button a hundred times while we wait. I have three games I play – Solitaire (of course), Freecell and Spider Solitaire. The challenge is to get all three games out the first time around. Of course with Solitaire you can’t start again which is the real challenge, but with the other two you can. So you see if you manage to get Solitaire out the first game you play and the other two games completed successfully without having to start again, then it’s a really good twenty minutes. And if you can do it before the bank statement comes up you haven’t wasted any time at all – have you? Anyway what else does a fifty something farmer’s wife have to do – except perhaps light the fires, weed the garden, feed the chooks, feed the lambs, help move a mob of sheep and oh yes – cook tea. So today all the games were played successfully the first time around – I am invincible!! Mind you, the bank’s web page still hadn’t finished down loading so it wouldn’t have mattered if I had had to start again. So I’ve decided not to look at the bank statement tonight – that would just be too depressing. It can wait for another twenty minutes when I have nothing better to do.
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