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Someone once said you’re never too old to learn new tricks.<\/p>\n

This old guy is learning ’em . . . in a hurry!<\/p>\n

My wife and I are purchasing a home in Princeton, Texas. We signed a huge stack of papers this past week. Now comes the technological know-how I am being essentially forced to acquire as we finish the move.<\/p>\n

We have a “smart home.” We have opened up an Internet service to the new place. Just today, the Internet provider installed the guts to our Internet wiring.<\/p>\n

Then we have this “smart key” business. I’ll try to explain it.<\/p>\n

The “master key” was activated to recognize my wife and me. The builder’s representative showed us how to use the front-door key, the back-door key, the garage-door key by using a tiny metal probe we poked into the “smart” portion of the master key.<\/p>\n

One more “smart home” feature needs to be installed. It will come from Amazon. A tech will come to the house and will walk us through the setup of the “Alexa” feature that allows us to speak to the house to get it to do certain tasks we will ask of it; things like turning lights on and off.<\/p>\n

I try to stay current, but I have to say that this technology is requiring me to learn a language I did not understand. I am happy to report that it is coming to me — a little bit at a time.<\/p>\n

Hey, print journalists speak a language of their own to each other. It’s not quite jargon that doctors, lawyers, engineers or astronauts<\/em> use when they talk among themselves. But, they do speak a unique language.<\/p>\n

I am believing now that the computer-wise among us surely speak to each other in a language only they<\/em> understand.<\/p>\n

I am looking at retirement in a whole new context these days. I am glad to be no longer working full time. I also am enjoying — as best I can — the fairly steep learning curve I am climbing while we finish the move into our modest, but so very modern<\/em>, home.<\/p>\n

If this old man can learn something new, then anything<\/em> is possible!<\/p>\n\n

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