My eldest daughter has her own blog about Life on Capitol Hill in Seattle, and I got a mention when she found out I have started this one. It vastly amused her that I have found my way into the blogosphere. She really gets a kick out of my participating in all these modern contraptions, despite my having come from the days when the idea of computers in your house ran along the line of Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. Yes, it is/was a real book. If you really want to see how far we have come, give that a gander. Horse and buggy I kid you not. When I started at my present job 15 years ago, my computer did not have Windows, and I was using the Word Perfect word processing program like a big electronic typewriter. I don't remember why, now, but when we first got Windows on our office machines, I kept inadvertently closing (unsaved) whatever I was working on. That seems so funny and antiquated to me now.
Kids gather round and Grandmama will tell you how faxes used to come through the receiver of a phone (you had to answer the phone yourself, and put it on the fax cradle) and were printed onto a paper wrapped around a metal cylinder. Now you can download your boarding pass onto your Iphone...well if you are not a T Rex like myself who does not (yet) own an IPhone....
Times they area changin' and Mom is coming along with them, if not at top speed. I do love email, because I can send forth my letters of protest (political, customer service, product complaint oriented or otherwise) and get responses in far less time than the old Pony Express style of the mailed letter. Terrible typist that I am, being able to edit and correct without that white liquid or erasable paper is a Godsend. Anyone who had seen my handwriting considers themselves blessed that I can use Word.
There is also the matter of my deep-seated need to protest those things not right, by writing . Nothing doth so feed the wrath of she who must email like someone else's snark and/or density when a word processor is handily nearby. I have two teed up right now over a 1) A glitch in the computer of my medical group's new prescription processor that is causing me to have to pay triple my usual co-pay and 2) My cable provider's postcard announcing that they are fighting the good fight (to pay as little as possible) with block of cable stations which are my standard weekend viewing, the result of which may be the vanishing act of said stations from my channel lineup. Oh no you didn't! Fighting for me, you say? Fighting to pay the smallest fees for broadcast rights, all the while steadily increasing my monthly bill? I want my HGTV! Ah well, that is a post for another day.
I am figuratively sharpening my quill.
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