A Non Techy Artist in a Technical World

Give me a lump of clay and I’ll be just fine is my motto. Then arthritis struck my wrists and hands and poverty hit my wallet. It was time to finally make the switch over from a creative artsy career to an organizational managerial one. No wish-y washy “I can do both” attitude was going to make me successful. A colleague needed my project management services and I took the plunge. The water was warm and friendly even though it was murky. Like everything else in life, I decided that I would have to make my own rules and systems to follow. As long as I successfully kept the projects on track who cares what form my organizational systems took. Now I am working towards proficiency in excel and having a completely mobile office in order to accommodate both onsite time and working from home time. Cell phones are just mini computers these days so I figured that I would start with that and decide later if I needed a tablet. My laptop is just too heavy to lug around with my arthritis and stressed out muscles. Friends and coworkers give me advice on all the cool and useful apps out there. So for starters I thought I should try something fun--Pandora. Looked it up on my laptop, read reviews. Signed up. Then put the app on my phone. When the laptop and the phone were playing different songs on the same Aqua station that I set up I was discombobulated. Then I signed off of the laptop portal but the music played on. Panic! What if Pandora still is playing even though I closed the window? Will it eat up my 40 hrs in less than 2 days—guess I’ll find out. It’s only a buck to extend music for the rest of the month. I can handle that. Breathe, relax. Go close Pandora on the cell phone, but there is no sign out option on the screen. Hit the home button but the music just plays on. It never ends, just like the background music at the theme parks. Make it stop! Finally discovered that the menu button was the key to other options. Yaaa! Enough technology for today, where’s the Sculpey clay?