Published by deborah.woehr on 28 Jan 2006 at 07:15 pm
The Joys of Having a Pre-Teen
I’ve just spent the past two hours trying to figure out why my screen went monochromatic on me and fretting over the cost of replacing the monitor and/or video card. Replacement parts for Macs are normally not cheap. A new video card would cost me anywhere between $99 and $300, depending upon what I wanted to get.
After a frustrating week trying to work around WordPress bugs, I did not want to deal with this. A search on Google proved futile for me, but my husband found the solution and relayed it to me as my oldest burst into my office and pressed several keys on my keyboard.
Presto! I now have color. As it turns out, he and his buddy (who is spending the night) snuck into my office while said buddy’s mom and I were visiting and toggled the screen to monochrome. I didn’t know anything was wrong until she left and I returned to my computer.
He is about to learn that age and experience overcomes youth and skill.
Benjamin Solah on 28 Jan 2006 at 7:24 pm #
My grandfather often says that a new computer should come with a 12 year old included to set it up.
deborah.woehr on 29 Jan 2006 at 8:41 am #
There’s a whole lot of truth to that.
pat kirby on 30 Jan 2006 at 2:53 pm #
He is about to learn that age and experience overcomes youth and skill.
Or that the words “You’re grounded” are mightier than the teen.
Deborah on 30 Jan 2006 at 4:10 pm #
Yes, they are.
John (Syntagma) on 31 Jan 2006 at 10:29 am #
Ah, those awful hardware knobs! You just can’t trust ‘em.
deborah.woehr on 31 Jan 2006 at 10:56 am #
LOL! No, you can’t, especially around young boys.
Joseph Dilworth Jr. on 31 Jan 2006 at 12:51 pm #
Fortunately my 14 year old’s computer knowledge has yet to surpass mine and she’s not really all that interested in learning much beyond chatting and email. On the other hand, my one year old is learning at a fast enough rate that he’ll be building his own computer right around Kindergarten.
deborah.woehr on 31 Jan 2006 at 1:00 pm #
Until my son started taking technical drafting in school, he had no idea how to use a Mac.
Somehow that wouldn’t surprise me. Our kids’ generation knows a lot more than we did at their age, thanks to technology.