Mom on the Internet

            A wonderful computer-savvy genius named Roger Lin just left after spending 2 ½ hours with my computer because this morning at 3:00 AM, I got the message “The User Profile Service service failed the logon.  User profile cannot be loaded.  No matter how many times I logged off and on, I got the same message.  So I went to campus, and a nice student assistant in Batmale 313 helped me contact my students by e-mail from there.  (After all, their reports, grades, evaluations, etc. etc. are all on my computer, and I use my computer for our web site and class mail too.)

            But this reminded me of how heroic Mom appeared to me when, at the age of 72 or so, she asked, “How much would it cost me to get on the Internet?”  At that time—in the early or mid 1990’s (probably 1993)—I didn’t even know what the Internet was, and Mom knew and wanted to use it to she could do work for the Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center that required use of the Internet.