Today’s the day that Hallmark, florists and jewellers inform you that if you do not give them money in exchange for goods to give to your significant other, then you are a horrible person. Should you happen to not have a significant other, then you are made to feel left out of the “fun”. Hollywood has had their hand in dictating the expectations of the day as well – you don’t want to be the shlub that the audience hates because you didn’t live up to the Valentine’s Day expectations, making your actions on the other 364 days of the year neglectable.
In the past, I’ve posted things about why I love Dena and the usual stuff that many people can identify with. This year, I’d like to share something that really touched my heart. For the Christmas holidays, Dena went to visit her family in Crystal Falls. One day while she was IM-ing me from her parents’ computer, she types this:
I need to update this computer. What is the latest version of firefox?
Now I love my wife, but a technical person she ain’t. In university, I tried to no avail to explain to her the benefits of copy ‘n’ paste. She would have none of it. She preferred to re-type if need be – she has since come around once she began her first job out of university and realized that retyping 200-word portions of legal documents might actually be worse than a quick CTRL+C and CTRL+V. So for her to immediately want to update her parents’ web browser was a nice to hear, but not a total shock, since she installed updates and patches on her work computer. Yet, she then wanted to tackle an expired anti-virus subscription:
I need to update the AVG here as well. Got a link for that?
Following a reboot, she sends me this message:
This computer has so much shit on it that it’s so slow. But everything is updated. What about skype now? 2.5.0.151 is the version on it now.
My wife is an updating machine. She realizes the benefit of keeping software current. We’re on the same wavelength. And that, folks, is real love 🙂
