Having a hard day? Is your husband pressuring you into trading sex for getting him to do something that needs doing around the house? Has your child just vomited on the floor, but you're so tired your ignoring the mess and hoping the dog eats it? Has your baby not slept in so long that you find yourself contemplating putting a shot of something in the sippy cup?

Well, how happy would you be to learn that you are SO not alone? Happy enough to slog through the depths of other peoples' misery to make yourself feel better?

Have at it!

And for those of us for whom the Internet and attached computer gizmos present one Everest of a learning curve after another, all prompting scorn, fear and abject hatred, GET A GRIP.

"Age is more important (to determining Internet use) than income, gender .... or level of education," said Domingo Laborda, an official Spain's Industry Ministry.

Do you WANT to be so much of a geezer?

Okay, so maybe you're comfy enough with a level of skill and knowledge that allows you to click on a bookmark and read me here everyday with the rest of the old coots ... and that's about it ... but I warn you, you're showing your age.

Get with the program and follow the lead of Maria Amelia Lopez, the 95-five-year-old great-granny who has taken up blogging and is racking up hits like wrinkles on an apple doll.

Her site is in Spanish, but, but a translation of the first line of her first post is classic: "Today it's my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog."

She is generous with her memories, and with her ways of dealing with aging, a process she admits "disfigures everything" when comparing the face she had in youth to what greets her in the mirror today.

Now in regular contact with people from all over the planet who visit her blog, she has an issue many of us can relate to, although perhaps not quite as objectively as she when she says, "I'm going to die before I get broadband."


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