Learning the Technology

I'm not stupid!  But I do find the newest technology baffling.

I learned about computers and applications the hard way, before anyone knew enough to teach.
And now, when I ask a simple question, I get laughed at or mocked.  I can even go down in flames.

I swear somedays I spend more time learning an app than I do actually writing.

Don't get me wrong.  I love this new technology.  I love not having smelly, messy carbon paper.  I love to be able to type my thoughts, edit them, and see them in beautiful fonts on that white screen before me.
I love the ease of fact-finding.  No more days at the public library searching to find the one fact that will make my story believable.  I love the on-line thesaurus and dictionary.

Occasionally I find myself strapping on my laptop, sitting on the subway and pecking out my thoughts, my scenery, conversations overheard, or even a rough character sketch of a fellow traveler.
Ye old typewriter never tripped with me.  Back then, my notebook (real paper) and pen came as companions. 
I'd have to hope for smooth travel if I wanted to read my musing when I returned back home.
I'd scribe my thoughts, return home and decide if they were actually worth typing and saving.
Now I can save them all!  For who knows when those gems will be exactly what I look for.

I am learning net-speak, a language of its own, much the same way I learned French and Italian; by listening and reading.  My interpretations can be risible, to my family.  But I struggle on.

I will learn.  I embrace wholeheartedly this

Like any self-respecting writer, I will learn and apply any method to make my writing day a little easier.  It's the words, lying patiently in my brain, just waiting to be plucked, massaged and strung that are the gems.  Any technology that allows my visions access past my skull needs to be learned, used and embraced.