I'm in 2006, but my technology isn't...

Okay, so I'm still grappling with technology. A "friend" once described me as an "18th-century structure freak," and while that's not entirely fair, there are certainly reasons that I'm a writer and an archaeologist, and not a leading light in high-tech. For example, last month, I went to send a disk with a copy of my manuscript to my editor, and had a hard time finding the "A" drive on my new computer. Actually, my first clue should have been that I couldn't find any 3.25 disks in the house, but eventually I realized that I should be using the lovely CD-RW or whatever burner I have in my computer. Proud that I figured this out on my own, I told my husband, who replied with a gentle "Wake up, Rip. It's the 21st century." Since he's the one who is doing his best to educate me in the ways of the Web, I have to be nice to him, but he was pushing it there.

That brings me to this blog, which is really an extension of my old "Notebook," the previous entries of which are still to be found on my website. So I'm holding my breath and jumping in and we'll see if I can publish this puppy. Of course, at the moment, I'm thinking of how Douglas Adams wrote about how even harmless words go into the universe to cause havoc, so I'm trying to avoid saying "Belgium" as I hit enter...click