I feel a bit like a stockbroker at the moment, as I am peering into two computer screens at once.
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Okay, so I'm a couple of screens short of the real deal and totally clueless about the stock market; my play acting is just me trying to feel better about the technical difficulties I'm currently facing.
Transitioning from my much-loved but tired laptop to my shiny new one, I find that so many documents I need are neatly tucked away in the drawers of my beloved filing cabinet - otherwise known as my email system - which I'm struggling to access.
I know exactly where everything is in there, and I miss that old familiar face.
With my retiring laptop down to the battery life of a small child's attention span and literally falling apart, I need to complete changeover before I lose everything.
Even though my new laptop is gorgeous, I feel completely helpless trying to find my way around the systems and make them do what I need, in a way that I like.
Without a 17-year-old daughter to help me, there is no doubt I would have had to seek professional advice.
My precious first born didn't even moan and groan about helping me - like I did about folding the washing -she just tappity-tapped away, delving deep into my distant past to help me rediscover passwords, then found a way around it when I couldn't.
In the time it took me to fold two baskets of washing and get another wheelbarrow load of wood for the fire, my eldest had my emails coming through like a dream and a lovely screen saver set-up; my three offspring posing like Charlies' Angels on their first day of school this year... just seeing that photo every time I open up is making me like my new machine more.
My precious first born didn't even moan and groan about helping me - like I did about folding the washing -she just tappity-tapped away, delving deep into my distant past to help me rediscover passwords, then found a way around it when I couldn't.
I have no idea how people without helpful teenagers are keeping up, although I suppose if they didn't take years out of the system to teach a small group of clients how to use cutlery, toilet and dress themselves, speak a language and be a good helper, they'd have had all that extra time to stay in touch.
My investment has been totally worth it.
Don't need any screens to tell me that.