Sims are educating me ...
So, done! When I look back I was the greatest anti-pc-person of the world! "Oh no, I can't do that! Oh no, it's much to difficult! Oh no, I'll leave that to the younger ones!" It was hard work for my husband to snatch my old typewriter from me and have me sitting instead in front of a pc. "You can't do anything wrong with it - it's absolutely foolproof", he told me. Oh - did he know me for years? I managed to get comments on my screen he'd never seen before. "How did you do that?", he gasped more than one time.
But after a while I could proudly present my pc-written things and was able to start the pc, write, save and switch off. I was rather glad with that pc-think you can imagine, but I thought that was enough for me. Later I learned a lot about layout an such things. That was another theme.
Then my daughters came and brought sims to me. "Mum, you have to play. You will love it!" I didn't want to - but they were right. I enjoyed it, I loved, I got addicted to my sims. And so I learned a lot. Credit to EA that I learned things about how to edit registries and other stuff like that, because my sims broke my pc more than once, they didn't want to deinstall correctly, refused to install, caused several crashes and I had to try everything - because I wanted to play. When sims 2 came up, they crashed the heart of my pc and he needed a heart-transplantation ... oh!
And today - only because I wanted to post in the "Showroom" - I learned how to use photobucket. For years my children tell me: "Go to Photobucket and we all can watch your pictures whereever we are!" I didn't manage that photo-thing. But today, after hours of trial and error - for sure the best method to learn! - I managed not only to get photos in there but also to create a slideshow. I'm proud on me! *claponmyshoulder*
So thanks to my sims and the wonderful TRS - I've learned again something I've never had learned without the sims ...
PS: Perhaps I even learn to talk English in a way others will understand what I want to say ...

