Retirement age; that is the age you are finally able to stop punching a time clock and have the time to do more of what you want and It is a good thing you have all that extra time because everything you want to do takes longer.  I mean everything from tying your shoes to trying to figure out how to set your new watch or the car radio.

Since the early days of computers, I have been teaching myself how to make them work for me.  It was  fascinating.  Fast forward to today.  I am still learning! For almost a week, I have been using the Lynda.com website to learn about the web design software, WordPress.  I don’t know when I did my first website but it was a long time ago. To keep up you need to learn new software. That has never been a problem for me.  Until now! It takes me several hours to learn a chapter and about 30 seconds to forget it.  It isn’t the understanding; it is the simple memory.  Add in the fact that I might doze off in the middle of a tutorial and you can understand why it is taking so long.  I know what the program does and even how it does it but I forget where to find the right button to click to set up a menu or add properties to a file.  It is a little like my recent dieting – 3 steps forward and 3 and 1/2 steps back.

I have three monitors in front of me. My laptop is running the tutorial and the other two are displaying my current software; in this case, the WordPress program. By the time I look from what I am supposed to do on the first monitor to the last screen to do it, I have forgotten what I was trying to do.  I have found that I have to watch about 4 tutorials and then go back to the second one and go forward 4 or 5 and then back 3 or 4.  It is a little like a bug hitching a ride on a rolling hula-hoop.  While going in circles you travel a long way but don’t get too far ahead with each cycle.

As you can see though, I have made enough progress to get the site up and running. The posts below were just practice posts. I still have a lot of the basic design to do but at least it is functional.  I will be making most of my normal posts here.  I’ll post links on FaceBook.  I still have a lot to say and this should be the easiest way to say it.

Let me know what you think.  in the comments section.  Hopefully, I will figure out how to manage the comments.