Why Computers Are Dumb

I frequently grumble about the problems I have when I write this blog.  Part of the reason is I am no good with computers.  It all started in my last years of college.  I couldn't afford a computer, yet, especially since I only wanted an Apple.  By my last semester,  I only had one class that I even needed to type assignments for (I had two art electives) and my personal typewriter was good enough, since the computer labs were in a basement nowhere near my classes.  At my only job, my skills had gotten very rusty and my employer didn't offer any help in learning new ones.  During the next four years, when I was basically forgotten, technology advanced way beyond my skill set.  I only needed to be around computers for about an hour or so a month; so I never got one.  This was also the time when cellphones became ubiquitous.  Since I never went anywhere and had no one calling me/no one to call, I never got one of those either.  When the store opened up, I felt it was better financially speaking to wait to get one.  It took months to develop the systems I needed to keep everything organized, but it works for me.  Even when I found out that on of my distributors had increased offering online, that only added another hour of so a month to go over the three dozen plus categories(out of more than seventy)  and thousands of listing I liked to go through.  Believe me, it is not as boring as it sounds.  Then, when cellphones gave way to smartphones and tablets, I almost thought seriously about getting one.  However, I still didn't go anywhere much.  I didn't have any pressing needs to call anybody from anywhere.  Data plans and finances confuse me.  In fact, I have only been in one situation that I needed to call someone when I didn't have a phone in seventeen years.  Besides, I like not to be that easily reached.  Then, a few years ago, more information became available only online.  This added another thirty minutes online a week.  Then, last spring, while waiting on a thirty minute oil change that became a two hour major repair, I fooled around on Wix and finally created a website for the store.  I snowballed from there.  I finally got my own email address instead on using the store's (which I didn't set up or control).  Then, I got this blog so I could start writing again, beyond the store's blog, which I upgraded to here as well.  Then, I put the store on social media, which meant I was on social media.  Now 1-2 hours every 2-4 days isn't cutting it.  I am also trying to set up online sales, meaning a need for a mobile device as well.  I also found out that I am almost the only customer at my local comic book/gaming store not upgraded to a digital reward system.  The kicker, Apple finally opened a store in Lexington.  Now, the few times a year I go up there, I pass by it daring myself to enter, but I never do.  For years, a wanted a computer, but never had the need or opportunity to get one.  Now that I need one for professional/personal use with just a three hour drive, I don't want one.  No guide for dummies, already out-of-date on printing, can make up for 25 years without hands on training.  I will probably get one or both by the end of the year, finally, but not without some kicking and/or screaming involved and I can stop using public libraries.  But seriously.  Computers, entirely kinda useful.