I should have just stayed on the train...
Dec. 25th, 2011 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danlansdowneThose of you who have been in the studio audience for a few years will know that my relationship with my father idles at "distant". When you work over an hour away for the first twelve years of your son's life, you're not going to be home too much. Eventually the son is going to get tired of trying to bond with you and will only come to you when he needs help with homework--even though you'll only help him during the commercials.
And then came the internet.
I think it took about a year after we got high speed for me to lap him in terms of computer savvy. That day arrived when he started asking me for help with his computer instead of the reverse. The man has a B.Sc. from a prestigious university, worked at IBM's headquarters, started the systems program at the Humber College business school, but his brain shifted to neutral somewhere around Windows 95 and hasn't shifted into gear since.
Which brings me to today. On a day to celebrate family togetherness and the birth of our Lord, I'm providing tech support for a problem with his e-mail that started two weeks ago. I found a workaround and that was the end of it--until it stopped working. Then the tech support started getting yelled at.
You would think that in the past two weeks he would call the ISP tech support. But he hasn't, because it "takes forever" to get through to them. This solution is SOOOOOOO much better! PS, Victoria University at U of T called; they want their degree back.
By the way, MERRRRRY CHRISTMAS!
And then came the internet.
I think it took about a year after we got high speed for me to lap him in terms of computer savvy. That day arrived when he started asking me for help with his computer instead of the reverse. The man has a B.Sc. from a prestigious university, worked at IBM's headquarters, started the systems program at the Humber College business school, but his brain shifted to neutral somewhere around Windows 95 and hasn't shifted into gear since.
Which brings me to today. On a day to celebrate family togetherness and the birth of our Lord, I'm providing tech support for a problem with his e-mail that started two weeks ago. I found a workaround and that was the end of it--until it stopped working. Then the tech support started getting yelled at.
You would think that in the past two weeks he would call the ISP tech support. But he hasn't, because it "takes forever" to get through to them. This solution is SOOOOOOO much better! PS, Victoria University at U of T called; they want their degree back.
By the way, MERRRRRY CHRISTMAS!
