#8 Computer literacy is a must--a lesson in focus and attention

Man, damn! Beginning this blog has made me pay more attention to the hows and whys of maintaining it. I am a writer but to be honest I'd rather use a pen and a pad than to deal with the computer. There is however reality. A pen and a pad are good for personal writing and rough drafting but editing and putting words in final form must be done on a computer. (*NOTE I don't own a computer right now---I can blog and fuck around on the net and even run my business b/c I have hustle--check the technique biooooooooooooootch) Computers can be our friends or our nemeses. Computers are machines that can transform lives or hold people transfixed by the images, games or infinity of information they put at our fingertips. I've always liked them but they have never been a necessity for me. Hell, I just started to regularly use email a couple of years ago and I looked at computers as diversions. I wasn't being short-sighted and believing that they were a passing fad, I just refused to become another screenwatcher. TV is bad enough but a screen that can take me anywhere at any time could become a serious addiction. So, even though I like computers I have stayed willfully ignorant of them. I can do basic shit but until now I've had neither the necessity nor the inclination to do much more.
this blog has changed a lot. I just spent 2 days figuring out how to post pictures and I'm still not exactly sure. The lesson is about focus. Because now I am focusing on being computer and net literate it's coming-slowly, but it's coming.
I swear that I went around in circles trying to post my profile picture. It literally to hours over two days to make it happen. But it's done. All the while I was trying and failing I was cursing to myself and planning a letter writing campaign that would petition the gods of computers and the 'net to make instructions make sense. Finally I just decided to look closely at the instructions and the answer became clear. I almost felt foolish. I say almost because upon reflections the directions weren't as clear as they could be, but they were clear enough if you do more than skim them. When attention and focus change, results change. I could go on and on but you get the point.