my3sons wrote:Hi Angie!
I too am technologically challenged. However, I have learned a thing or two I will try to share. Word documents have to be put in JPEG form (or something similar) to be posted here. So, I make a PDF and then a JPEG of my schedule. Your computer can probably do this, just look at your "Save As" options to see. If you can't figure out how to make a JPEG out of your schedule, you can always just snap a picture of it with your digital camera.
I am still working on this schedule posting thing. It's starting to make me not a happy camper
. I saved it into pdf and then into jpeg. But it is too large. But I can work on the sizing, it will just take a while. I may just need to retype it up. I have it on 11x17 paper, so I may just need to go in and change my word doc rather than try to resize the image....anyway....I'll get there eventually
deltagal wrote:Hi Angie,
This is a topic of great interest to me! How much time do you allow your self on the computer each day and what time of day do you go on.
I currently get on for 15 minutes in the early a.m. and then up to an hour in the mid-afternoon. I spend most of this time responding to emails and very little time surfing. But I would like to have some surfing time. I just can't seem to find it : )
Florence,
My computer time is not really that scheduled as far as an "I'm on the computer for 30 minutes from 12:30-1:00" type of thing. I don't have a set computer time or anything like that. But I do have to set a timer when I get on sometimes because it will suck me in!!
I don't get on the computer first thing in the morning, unless there is a pre-planned need (checking a specific email that has needed information, etc). However, I HAVE to check and send emails and look up things, etc during the day. We have a business and dh is out and often needs bids or invoices faxed/emailed or I need to look up information from our book-keeping for him. So when he calls, I have to get those things done in a reasonable amount of time. This isn't a lot during the day (maybe once or twice a day), and none of what he needs me to do is that time consuming (10 minutes tops). So I will just find a spot "between" kids and jump on the computer to do whatever it is. At that point (IF we are doing okay time wise with school, I will check personal email, HOD message boards, and anything else that strikes my fancy
). But when I do that, that is when I must set a timer. Because if I don't, I will look at the clock and think, "oh, I've got 15 minutes before I need to work with Emma", and before I know it 2 hours have passed!!
(I speak from WAY too much experience). The timer has been my life saver!
If school is done, and my other motherly/helpmeet duties are taken care of, then I will get on in the afternoons or weekends without a timer. The timer is just for school days (and occasionally other times I think I may get sucked in).
I also have to guard against certain sites I go to--mostly message boards. Not really
bad ones, but ones that I tend to get wrapped up in. We don't watch tv much at all, but some of those message boards can be like a soap opera to me. It's crazy! And Satan has really used that to his advantage with me. So I try to guard myself when it comes to those places as well. It makes me REALLY thankful for this board, and how it is a place of refuge.
Anyway, I'm sure that was more information that you were asking about. But this is a subject that I have really had to work through. (I hope I'm not making myself sound like I was into something really evil or anything)----just a whole lot of joy stolen, and being pulled away from relating to and leading my children from the way God has called me to. I'm fairly passionate about it
Angie
