Every year about this time I go through the same deal of updating my programs. Some are a breeze. A little notice comes up on my screen and I click on it and in a short period of time my program is up to date. However some programs are not so easy to update. Now sure you buy the new one and plunk it in your CD/DVD drive and it's programed to take out the old and in with the new. Piece of cake. Ya right. It is then that suddenly you notice it needs to look for new updates and if your program is of the same year, but a newly purchased, it dawns on you in a moment of horror that it needs 365 days of back updates. and the horror part is only realized by those of us still on dial-up. Oh, the woes of low income and high costs of high-speed internet.  This means a long night, a  very very long night or maybe a week, because once the download begins it can not be stopped or you lose what you have gained.  When will software programers make it easier by just adding a small box to check if you want to save your updates. Think how much easier it would be to save those months of updates than to erase them all only to have to install them all over again.  Lately, I have been thinking perhapes I should try to get high-speed and let my dial-up go by the wayside.  Then as I count my pennies trying to figure out what to cut out in order to be able to afford the least amount of bandwith possible and yet be considered high speed, I find that ten dollars a month for dial-up is a pretty good deal and yet once a year I really hate it. So whether I manage to update my old-fashioned thinking and spring into action and buy the cheapest high-speed remains to be seen, but in the mean time my phone line is going to be busy for the next week or so, and so if you need me, come knock on my door. I will be right here.

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