She has three email accounts, each with a different emphasis and use. I have two but one sends everything to the other, so effectively I have one. Some software likes to use a person's email as the logon name. I usually think of email and computing and iPad use as something separate from watching TV. However, streaming with Roku, getting an internet connection from a cable company and getting a "Passport" from PBS to watch their better program sometimes also involves email, logon names, passwords, as well as charitable contributions.
What would George Washington or Abraham Lincoln make of the items just mentioned:
Email
Logon
Password
Computer
iPad
Streaming
Roku
Software
Cable company
Oh, and don't forget Chromebook, a slightly different sort of computer, which also got into the act.
Somewhere in all of that, we like the same PBS programs that others have also said they like. We realize there are dozens and dozens of programs and we rarely explore the array but we have watched Poldark and The Durrells in Corfu. Last night, we watched sexual predation in Boston with Rizzoli and Isles and then Lynn wisely said,"How about the Durrells?"
It is a little hard for me to watch a widow, two teen sons, a younger son and a teen daughter struggle with moving from their native Britain to the Greek island of Corfu. I want to smack the older boys, whose manners and mouthiness would lead to violence in my childhood home, but basically it is a good and stimulating program.
Lynn handles charitable contributions so it is her email address that is the name of our PBS account. But I signed into the Roku and as a damned convenience, the tv, the streamer and PBS all jump us right into PBS in my name, not the name of our regular contributor to public broadcasting.
Roku is expanding their business and so we got a new model streamer.
Want to watch The Durrells? Make a contribution. We did many, damnit!
After several evenings of shouts and snarls, with lots of electronic switching and use, we can now watch the Durrells. We haven't ended our 59 year marriage and neither of us has struck the other.
