Helped my dad by moving his flower text files (he grows orchids, hostas and cacti) from his old laptop to the new one, and installing a camcorder driver on the new 'pooter too, so that he can now mess with video files from his video camera.
And I love that he asks me about a lot of things when it comes to the computer - it isn't always that I can answer him right away, but I can look up things for us on the internet, and so I learn in the process, too. That's great fun.
I think my dad's pretty cool - he's 83 years old, and I love his curiosity when it comes to cameras, computers and all things technical.
EDIT:
Met a sweet elderly gentleman in our laundry room in the basement.
We ended up chatting away while waiting for the washing machines to finish the laundry.
It turned out that he had worked for Revell in the US once upon etc., and then we started talking planes, cars and motorcycles - awesome guy!
He had been on the german team, making the basic model molds for the jerry planes, and the german team competed with the brits, who build the Spitfire and other british plane model molds for the company; they had a great time while working. Cool.