I Can't Hear You!

I'm sometimes overwhelmed by today's technology. Actually, I'm overwhelmed by yesterday's technology - I haven't graduated to today's yet. My cell phone does many wondrous things, or so I'm told. I've even learned to text with my granddaughters. I can make & receive calls, use the calendar, the calculator, and the camera ... sort of. I'm told, as simple as my cell is, that it does so much more. I expect I'll never know.

I do what I think is a lot on the computer. I like not messing with carbon paper or White-Out. I've learned to send photos with my emails, I can now post on Facebook and, obviously, I blog. Earlier this week I even used a GPS when we went to the coast. I cheated - I know how to get where I was going; I thought it'd be a good test.

But at this time, my favorite piece of 'hi tech' is the DVR or TIVO or whatever you use to record your favorite shows for viewing later. Until November 3rd I watch none of my shows in real time. I DVR everything. It affords me the opportunity to not only fast forward through commercials; we've been doing that since the invention of the VCR, (ever notice how short an hour show really is?) but I'm no longer insulted or talked down to or lied to by any politician or PAC. I haven't seen one political ad since I decided to watch everything at least an hour after it broadcasts. That's not to say I'm going into the booth ignorant, I am studying the issues, pro & con, and the candidates, such as they are.

There is a time and place for this particular technology ... the time is now. Let's hear it for recording and the ability to fast forward. That's 'hi tech' enough for me and that gets my vote!