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Finish the run?

I didn't. Got a side stitch about halfway through the last long interval and had to drop back to a walk. I'll be repeating it on Friday. Just one of a long list of things I couldn't manage to accomplish today.

*sigh*

You still get an A for effort, Rosie :)

Yeah, I did the run. I'm doing it again Friday. Almost died in the second interval. Ugh!

For the last half hour, I have been helping my grandmother log into her email account over the phone. I really try to keep in mind the fact that she's 65 and while she's used a computer, is not used to the internet. Or the mouse.

But, when for the first TEN MINUTES we're not even trying to log into Yahoo - I don't know where we were logging into, but it wasn't Yahoo - and then it takes five minutes for me to realize that the reason she's not getting Yahoo when I have her type in the address is because she typed out 'dot' - and then when I have to tell her "left click on the Mail picture - that's the left mouse button - yes, move the mouse there'... it's frustrating.

More so because my sister walked her through the exact same process yesterday. And because I was going to try to get some writing in after my homework and now that doesn't look happy.... and after I helped her and then told her I had homework to finish, she kept talking to me about how "your parents didn't tell me they were going out of town, why don't I have (specialized piece of equipment for her medical transcriptionist job that I have NO clue about)"... I was ready to chew off my own leg several times during that very long 35 minutes, if it would have helped.

Gah. But it's good to vent!

Darn, someone's going to accuse me of being hateful to my grandparents, again. To which I say, you can have all five of them.