My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

My dad was an incredibly gifted man in many areas, but technologically, not so much. I remember setting up an old computer for him sometime early 2k to use for Word and for me to help issue 1099's for him so he wouldn't have to bang away on the typewriter for hours. I stopped by and he was ready to pitch that stupid box lol. He couldn't print for some reason. I check it to find that he had saved his document about 20 times, and had at least that many tabs open of each newly minted filename. I still don't know exactly what he was doing lol.

Today, I got to know what he felt like. As I'm sitting in front of my laptop, looking under and over my glasses (like he did) to read the vague help, with the screen full of tables, trying to figure out how exactly to get the "screens" to show what I want in calterm. I can lightly grasp WHAT I want to do, but negotiating the program itself has been a humbling experience. Heck, I don't even quite get what "screens" are (other than they seem to stick around just as I sloppily configured them, even after restarting), let alone the ability to use them to accomplish my goals... Tell me it gets easier? Someone that's well experienced in it, please tell me you felt like an idiot at first lol.