OLD MAN PLAYING

OLD MAN PLAYING.

I thought there should be a mix of high tech and 

low tech.  So here we have one of the older Mac

desk top computers opened and a candle added.

Well, you don't want the computer plugged in

while you have your hands in there working on

 it do you?  And as old as I am you can't see well,

so you add a candle for light.

OLD COMPUTERS

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OLD COMPUTERS.

You no doubt have seen the adds too.

"New life for old computers".

HA, HA, HA, HA.

Really, I have no complaint.  But when I

saw the add I was tempted.  I have several

old computers laying around and to be able

to put new life into them with just a little 

flash drive.  Amazing, I want one.  Why

even my newer computers could use a new

burst of energy.

There was only one problem.  My

computers were too old.  What they meant 

by old was late model to me.  I do not 

remember seeing what operating systems

this new burst of energy would work with

in the ad.  And apparently my old computers

are "pre-historic".  So, now what.

Well, the sound system on the computer

I had my music in went bad.  So, I turned

the little OLD computer in the picture above

into my new sound system.  It now has 

eleven hours of the kind of music I like

- Not what you like - down loaded into it.

The gadget I bought might not have worked

for me.  But I thank God that it made me

do something with that old computer that

is a real blessing to me.

THIS OLD COMPUTER OF MINE

I have had a number of computers the last few years.

But all of them have been used.  You know, cheap.

But Window's "Vista" drove me to "Mac".  And this 

little guy in the photo was my  [My, not my wife's.]

first new computer.

But, that was back in "09".  So, like myself, it was

beginning to show it's age.  It was slowing down 

and a lot of things were out of date.

It came new with "Mac OS X Snow Leopard 

installed.  Big stuff back in it's day.    So, I took

advantage of the free offer of Apple or Mac or who

ever they are, to upgrade [Ha, ha, ha.] to the newer

OS X El Capitan.

Was that ever a mistake.  That may have been about

six months ago and I have been paying the price 

ever since.  It gave it "computer dementia", or 

something.

True, it did have 2 (Only 2) features I liked that were

a real improvement.  The rest of it was, well, just 

crazy. So I had made up my mind to take it into the 

computer shop and have them put in another OS, new, 

old or even windows.  Just make it work better.

But, before taking it into the experts I decided to give 

it one more chance by installing all the "updates",

Wow!  That was even a worse mistake than going to 

El Capitan.  It would barely work.  About all you 

could do was turn it on.

In all fairness.  I read on line and was also told by the 

computer shop that El Capitan was just too much 

program for my poor little laptop.

After being in the shop for about a week they called 

me and talked to me in "Geek" for a while then told 

me I could come pick it up.   It still had the El Capitan 

in it.  It would  be slow but would work.

Wow and double wow.  If there was any improvement 

at all, I could not tell it.  All that money out, and it 

would just barely work.

I could (For example) check my e-mail.  Then dementia 

or Alzheimer's would set in and I would have to force it 

to stop.  Let it rest a while, then reboot.  Then I could 

check the weather, and then go through the same

 process again.  Then, Facebook - or what ever, and 

stop, rest reboot, etc.

I am in the habit of talking to God about most of my 

problems.  Some people call it prayer.  And I became

more serious in my "praying".  A few days latter I 

noticed that it was working better.  And now, it is working

almost as good as new.  Why?  I don't know.  Whether

 the Lord reach down and tuned it some, or had me 

make a mistake that change it, or what.  I do not

 know.

But I do know that God himself is better at repairing 

computers than the computer shop.  AND, a whole lot

cheaper.

PRAISE GOD.