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Tawnya
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Sep 09, 2025 10:55PM

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btw, my daughter inherited my spreadsheet addiction. I asked her a question, and she said "Let me check my spreadsheet." When I commented "Oh, you have that in a spreadsheet?" her response was "Well, yeah, Mom. Spreadsheet!"
😂😎

I am a bit of a Luddite.
I fought using excel for years, thinking it was too complicated. I had a CD of MSWorks from Win 98 that I loaded onto the next few computers. Then in 2022 I bought the thing I have now. It doesn't have a bloody CD drive. I bought one of the drives you can plug in. It found the CD and said it couldn't install. Being forced to use excel showed me how much more I can do, so yeah for forced obsoleteness.
The same thing happened to me with music. The only reason I stopped buying cassettes was the new car I got back in 2002 only had a CD player. The Fiat I bought in 2016 doesn't even have that. I got a year free of Sirius and found I loved it. Being able to play it on my computer was neat. The family made me get a smartphone. It sits on my desk. I use my flip phone still. It says that I can use Sirius on the phone, but I don't know. I loaded a game site I used to go to and the difference was so severe that I never used it. Same thing with using it to read my books. I have my original Kindle from 2016 and a lighter one from 2021. I am amazed the 2016 one still works, since I use it daily.
I will stop blathering now.