So I spent part of the weekend visiting my parents in central Washington. As usual when visiting my parents, there are computer questions to be answered. My mom finally joined the digital world with a MacBook Pro about a year ago, and while she still states that she “hates the computer” it’s usually sitting on the kitchen table every time I visit. This weekend was pretty light maintenance, just updating Firefox to 3.0, and showing her how to change things on the iGoogle home page.
Then we pulled out the combo birthday/Father’s Day present for Dad, which is my old Canon PowerShot S2 that I replaced with my Digital Rebel XTi. The S2 is a nice upgrade from his old Nikon, plus I had some filters and lens extenders to go with it. He was really excited to get the upgrade, and then Mom’s plan to take a walk down to the pond behind the neighbor’s house became clear. Dad got to play with his new camera, I got to take some cool pictures, and Mom was happy to finally have her own camera in Dad’s old Nikon. Now everybody’s got a Mac and a camera, and everybody’s happy.
It’s always fun to have the “city girl” return to the country.