Could have been worse i guess……they are so tech savvy
At the time they were age 8 and 9!
Almost certainly better than me then.
Somewhere we have a photo of daughter2 at about the same age (for sure, she was still in Primary school), with her own PC and 19” gaming monitor. As I recall, “Theme Park” and “Theme Hospital” were her two favourites, before she moved on to the “Tomb Raider” series
They start young, these days.
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Been there done that at my work desk many times thinking I was connected to the headphone system but was plugged into the pc.
There was a lot of mishaps during first lockdown while people got used to Zoom. I remember one meeting between politicians or industry people somewhere making the rounds, where one guy excused himself due to important business and then could be seen showering for the rest of the meeting. Also some groping of the girlfriend in another one 
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I’ve just bought myself a battery operated transistor radio, the battery is charged within the radio. I put the battery in the radio and plugged in. The display said “charge”. After fours hours the battery didn’t appear to be holding a charge, so I tried again for another couple of hours, no charge.
I contacted the seller via Amazon. The following day, their reply was “ the quickest way to get a replacement battery was for you to buy a new one and we will reimburse you”
I removed the battery to read its specifications and found that it was covered in a transparent protective cellophane wrapper covering the positive terminal.
Agh and oops.
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An artical in the paper recently quoted a senior dementia specialist as saying that out of all the cognitive dementia tests, one of the most accurate indications you don’t have dementia is having a senior moment and then worrying it is onset dementia. It’s when you have moments and think nothing of it that you’re on the slippery slope.
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I once had our IT drive 70ks from the factory to our head office in Sydney to fix my printer. He was less than impressed when he arrived only to find it was unplugged from the power.
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I wanted to watch YouTube so I got up off the couch went up to the TV and pressed my finger against the YouTube logo on the screen, repeatedly. “What are you trying to do?” laughed the kids.
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I’ve just tried to return the Parmesan to the cutlery drawer.
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I’ve done that too!
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Christmas 2020. Family outing to the National Arboretum Christmas Display.
We live within 2 miles of it!
Arrive in the carpark. Find my daughter and family using the Tracker App on the iphone.
Set off to where they are waiting, and get there but can’t find my phone. Thinks “I must have left it in the car”. I hadn’t. Turrned out to be in one of the multiple pockets in my heavy coat - discovered by my daughter who ‘tracked’ it on her phone then dialled it!
Oops.
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When our youngest granddaughter reached the age of 2 off she went to Nursery School during the day.
That was when I started having regular “Grandad’s Taxi” duties. Twice a week I would drive from our house to Sutton Coldfield, go to daughter’s house for child carseat, collect little Beth from Nursery, then drive to Little Aston Primary School to collect the older 2 children.
In typical fashion, I had to arrive in the carpark near the school very early unless I wanted a long walk (with a toddler), so I’d be in that carpark 30 minute before school let out.
Beth always demanded my phone and rapidly discovered that I had installed Peppa Pig and various other small child friendly games on it. She was very adept at loading them up herself, and playing the games. Alas, she also like taking screen shots (I never showed her how, so she must have figured it out for herself). Every week I had to delete >100 photos!
The other part of the “Taxi” duty was to take the eldest grandaughter (age 7) to GMac for Gymnastics, though now she “just” does Tumbling.
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I ended up ordering those memory foam insoles to put in my slippers.
Has helped me profoundly when walking into a room with a purpose.
I also bought some fingerless gloves thinking they would keep my hands warm.
Although they are always cold.
If someone could give me some tips to help keep them warm I would be very thankful.
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Wait. What? You still buy DVDs, and HMV still have actual stores? Who knew?
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I’m very ‘old school’.
Keep it under your hat, but I still buy vinyl records too! 
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Fair enough.
DVDs are actually selling more now than they have for many years. Mainly thanks to streaming. So much content is not available to stream on any service and studios are rapidly scaling back BlueRay production and not doing much of a back catalogue release on BR. DVD however is cheap to produce and movie collectors are a fairly stable market size. DVD production has ramped up to fill that gap quite nicely.
Now if I could just remember where I put my breakfast… Doh!. Porridge in the DVD player again!
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