Necessity is the mother of...trying things.

I have an Ipod.  I have used it to listen to books on tape for years while I am exercising, cleaning house, gardening; you get the idea.  I am on my second one, as the first ended up going through the washing machine. When I was complaining about that (likely on facebook or some such) my brother offered to send me one he had won at some affair.

So, it quit.  I am lost. I am grumpy.  I feel incomplete.  I know I can do the same things with my phone, but I don't know how.  and, the learning curve for me on techy things is pretty high.  My first posts were going to be about stuff I am somewhat familiar with so I can concentrate more on the thinking about feelings aspect. (thus the canning post).  Now, here I am NEEDING to do something I haven't done before, and it is what this blog is about, so here it is.  PS It quit yesterday morning.  I have been without it about a day, so this is super serious.  (another thing I will need to examine, but for another time 😀)

I woke up this morning and thought of first steps.  My first step would have been to go to my phone's owner's manual and see what it has to say (yes it is on line, and I know where to find it).  That would have been my first step.  However, I am around enough "techies" often enough that I actually thought to think of what THEIR first step would be.  And I decided to Google it.   "Ipod won't turn on."  Oh my goodness... let's suffice it to say, I have my iPod back and it took me less than 30 seconds.  My day has started well.  Someday, I may post about how to transfer stuff to my phone, but I got my IPOD working, so I'm going to go work out now.  Yippee!