My Theory on Computer Skills
Sure, nothing bloats my ego quite like someone telling me how good I am with computers. We all like to hear about how good we are!

But it's like this: I can change the oil in my car. I can change the sparkplugs. I have even done brakes and a couple of exhausts. That's where my expertise stops.

When something goes wrong with my car, I try to fix it to the best of my ability. I even haul out a Haynes book if I don't know, but there are limitations, and when I reach them—usually after trying, in all typical maleness, to fix something beyond my capability to fix—I go to my mechanic.

But that works both ways. When something goes wrong with my mechanic's computer, he applies what he knows and then calls me.

The moral of the story:  Each of us has our own skills and abilities, and we all need to learn to stop trying to fix our cars when we really don't have a clue how to fix them. Ahem.