Posted by OxMike on Mon 4 Feb 08, 5:15 PM to OxMike's blog.
Did you ever just 'Get it'?
No, I'm not on about that pay rise, or that flogger you've been hankering after for ages. What I mean is, IT!
It could be many things. It could have been algebra when you were at school. It could have been riding a bike, or learning to swim. But it's more than those alone.
I think it's a confidence in your ability to take on greater unexplored areas. Such as, 'Well i know I can swim 500m, so there is no reason that I can't swim 1500m. You just know you can. You've wobbled around on a bike for a few weeks or months, but without explanation, you take your hands off of the handle bars, and peddle without concern, because, you just know. You just get it.
Well today, I got it. Nothing spectacular. But I got MS Access. No one please tell my work, as I'm supposed to have got it before I started there..lol..
I don't know why it's taken me 3 years, but I'VE BLOODY GOT IT 
<Having an 'I've got it' dinner, to celebrate> oX.
| 4 Feb 08, 5:25 PM MisterBear UK(WA), 8 yrs    |
I remember me dad teaching me to ride a bike after the stabilisers were removed. However I just couldn't do it. Then one day I just went out on my own got on the bike and started to ride. I was either so fed up/annoyed that I just got on and did it or I just couldn't do it with someone watching me. However, I've never really tried to get M$ Access as I've never needed it. But I'm sure if I ever really need it then I'll get it. The Babylon project was our last best hope for peace. It failed. | |
| 4 Feb 08, 5:43 PM Just_Lydia UK, 5 yrs |
May your access bring you cascading boxes of happiness!  What's for dinner then? I do what I like and I like what I do. | |
| 4 Feb 08, 6:27 PM x_Raven_x UK(CR), 6 yrs |
Whilst I'm not short of getting IT I wouldn't mind getting some quality IT now and again | |
| 4 Feb 08, 8:28 PM River_Deep UK(M), 6 yrs |
Yeah I remember when I was learning to ride a motor bike and the turn in the road bit evaded me. I kept putting my foot down time and time again. The one day....BOOSH....I did it. The instructor laughed his head off as I went round and round and round for 10 minutes, then flicked the stand down, jumped off and did a sort of victory bum wiggle at him. D xx | |
| 4 Feb 08, 9:35 PM steve1966 6 yrs |
Now come and get Oracle RAC and you can have my job!!!! | |
| 5 Feb 08, 10:24 PM DeeSobek 4 yrs |
Or MS SQL and you can have mine... oh the joy of entities having relationships with themselves ~~~ delightful are the ties that bind ~~~ +++ may you live in interesting times +++ | |
| 15 Apr 08, 7:21 AM Ariane 7 yrs |
Yay! I took an ECDL course a while back and it included Access, found it funny that I got it and our IT guy didn't, so used Excel for everything. You should have a T-shirt made up, "I comprehend MS Access"  But then of course people would say "Geek!" It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. | |
| 15 Apr 08, 6:48 PM Blonde_Angel UK(IP), 5 yrs |
So now I see this message, why couldn't I have seen it sooner? Just done a coursework using MS access, its a pain in the proverbial behind. So many things about it annoy me. I got it fairly quickly, but it makes me scream! | |
| 15 Apr 08, 9:02 PM Ariane 7 yrs |
I had a logic course like that in college. 48 people dropped to 9 in a short time in one section. The 9 of us 'got it'. It was a matter of changing common language to calculus equations. Access is a piece of cake by comparison. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. |
