It's great when it works

I just talked nonstop for three hours to the senior center "Introduction to Computers" class. You'd think I'd take a breath once in a while, but here's the deal - Dick & I decided it would be cool to have both the beginning and advanced classes at the same time. We figured the advanced ones could follow the manual and work most of it out between themselves.

With the beginners, there's a lot to explain, right? "What you see on your screen right now is called the 'desktop'. These small pictures on the 'desktop' are called 'icons'. The 'icons' with small arrows in the lower right corner are called 'shortcuts'..." Some folks have never heard this vocabulary, and some have misunderstood it. Most of them have questions - good ones.

And then, of course, the advanced students have questions, too, don't they? So, there I go, talking some more until they are ready to forge ahead on their own again, and I'm back to the beginners. It's a bit like juggling, but never knowing how many objects are in the air.