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Gone fishing
Gene Beyer, a junior wildlife and fisheries
major from San Antonio, reels in a lucky
catch: Gilbert Huron, a junior civil
engineering major from San Antonio. Since
he wasn’t a fish, Beyer decided to throw
him back.
‘Computer widow’ tells
of unusual problems
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United Press International
PHOENIX — It used to be
divorced women were called
grass widows. Football widows
now mourn all year instead of
just the fall.
I’m coining a new phrase —
computer widow.
Ever since Bob toted a baby
computer home, it’s been
byebye Pat.
, Oh, I know all the answers.
Develop my own interests, find
somebody else who plays rac-
quetball and hits the ball easy for
me, read articles about the grow
ing phenomenon of computer
neglect. Right up to, “It ]
can’t beat ‘em, join ’em.”
Nothing helps. When he sits
down in front of that blinking
blue eye and seductive
keyboard, he might as well be in
Australia and I’m in the cold.
Inevitably I remember some
thing to ask him after he enters
computerland, but the response
is silence or snarls of frustration.
Now my key phrase is, “Let
me know when you reach a
breaking point.”
Thus he knows I have some
thing on my mind and usually
his curiosity wins out.
, Now HIS key phrase is, “Why
didn’t you think of that before I
got started?”
We have nightly discussions
about my feelings of neglect. He
points out I used to complain he
watched too much television.
Out of the boob tube and into
byte fright.
, Now he watches television an
hour a night — and that after I
pressured him into an agree-
fnent to spend time with me.
He is learning the meaning of
.time. Once a carefree soul who
ignored clocks as much as possi
ble, he has learned to check the
hour before he shuts down for
the night. He knows I’ll ask in
the morning.
He hasn’t yet agreed with me
that since he spends at least 40
hours a week on the computer,
he ought to find a job with one
and get paid for it. He knows my
objective is to get his baby off my
turf.
He hasn’t yet agreed
with me that since he
spends at least 40 hours
a week on the compu
ter, he ought to find a
job with one and get
paid for it.
In the beginning we played
together. We started on an
adventure game in which the ob
ject is to find treasures like
jeweled eggs and crystal scep
tres. I was pretty good at that. I
was the one who figured out
how to go up the chimney to get
back to the starting point. Heck,
I was the one who woke up in the
middle of the night with the
solution for opening the flood
gates of the dam.
Then, the adventure got old,
and Bob got more interested in
programming a game and get
ting it to work right than actually
playing it. His warehouse of per
fectly programmed, unplayed
games is growing rapidly.
He squints at pages of micros
copic lettering, pecking away
with two fingers for hours, curs
ing when something doesn’t
work right.
I helped with programming
for awhile, reading aloud things
like “ifa-0$’b-0$then(2c-
3c)I( 13)am$ 1023going(z-
xjerazy.”
While Bob continues his com
puter affair, I keep seeking a
solution to feeling like the old
shoe. Meanwhile, I have made a
vow to take advantage of his
obsession and learn about com
puters, wave of the future and
all that.
I am going to learn. I am.
Just as soon as I finish my let
ter to Dear Abby.
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More senior citizens
becoming alcoholics
staff photo by Brenda Davidson
United Press International
WASHINGTON — It has
been estimated that 3 million
American men and women over
the age of 60 are alcoholics, but a
Texas researcher says the figure
may be far too low.
Dr. Patricia J. Bloom, assis
tant professor of family medi
cine at Texas Tech University
Health Science Center at Amar
illo, said drinking problems
among some older people may
go undetected because they are
retired, live alone and seldom
leave their homes.
In addition, Dr. Bloom said
the person or his family may
conceal the alcoholism because
of embarrassment.
“When the elderly people in
this country were growing up,
the stigma surrounding alcohol
ism was much greater than it is
now,” she said. “Thus, many of
them have been conditioned to
feel intense guilt and shame ab
out their alcoholism.”
Dr. Bloom said alcoholism in
S le over 60 also may be
ed by standards used to de
termine how much alcohol a
person can tolerate. She said
they are geared toward younger
people and do not take into con
sideration the reduced amount
of water in older people’s bodies
and their decreased body size.
“What would be considered
mild to moderate alcohol con
sumption in a young person may
constitute problem drinking in
an elderly person,” Dr. Bloom
wrote in American Family Physi
cian, a publication of the Amer
ican Academy of Family Physi
cians.
Detecting excessive drinking
in elderly people is particularly
important, she said, because the
pr
among older people may be
worsened by even minimal alco
hol consumption.
In addition, she said alcohol
provides “empty” calories and
“may decrease appetite in a
member of an age group that, in
general, is poorly nourished.”
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the effects of medicines taken by
an elderly person.
Dr. Bloom said many people
begin drinking late in life in re
sponse to stress associated with
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no longer able to handle the
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