Which, I suspect, is how you'd feel if you gave your wife the password to your work account and she actually did "crash the network". You don't think you'd be feeling a bit inadequate if you had to explain *that* at work?
That relates back to my story about my XW, the weather model programmer who doesn't know what Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V does. Yes, she's smart. Yes, she's computer savvy...if you're talking about Fortran and Unix and things she's done before. Yes, it wouldn't take a whole lot of effort on her part to learn MS Word. Her latest thing is that her lawyer emails copies of divorce documents that we might sign (if we agree with them) as Word documents. XW doesn't have Word on her machine. I've given her at least three different ways to handle that situation (Google Docs, if nothing else). I've sat down on her machine and showed her. I've bookmarked the Google Docs page. But every time she gets a new document she can't figure out how to open it. Yes, sometimes it feels like she's feigning helplessness in order to avoid responsibility for doing what she's agreed to do, or even what she wants to do.
That's probably how she felt when I couldn't load the dishwasher her way. Whaddyagonnado?
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