running up the down escalator

I refuse to give up. For those of you who don't know how crazy I am, I am taking another course at the same time as this one. My most recent homework was about learning styles (abstract, random, concrete, etc) and for some strange reason I decided to challenge myself and use my new tech skills in my paper. Instead of writing about teaching strategies,I created wordles. They seem so simple but they disappear so easily. I must have retyped each one 6 times prior to succeeding. Ah, why not cut and paste from the report I just wrote, you might ask. Because my computers HATE me. My personal computer, the one that was just reimaged no longer allows me to use word. To the best of my knowledge, it no longer has any word processor, just one that I am now locked out of because I did not want the higher level (or more precisely, didn't want to spend increased $$$).That should involve a few hours of tech support to fix. Not on my calendar right now. My work computer did not work with wordle at all...probably too old. Then, I tried to be cute by making my puppy learners wordle be very random and beachball shaped like a beachball. wrong....perhaps a very flat one. Anyways, the end result for you elementary teachers, is similar to the projects you love where the parent did not complete the task and it is obvious that the child did it independently. The only problem is this child is 52....perhaps i should have had my child help me. so, although i enjoyed wordle, i also found it very frustrating. i couldn't shrink it, fix my typos, or dictate its shape. if i got carried away in trying to do this things, it disappeared completely. i did, however, enjoy playing with the pretty colors. i hope i didn't lose sight of the purpose of the assignment by getting excited to use one of my new tools functionally. i feel like i am running up the down escalator and the downward movement is faster than my upward.