We are all connected, and before you think I am going to write some brotherly love post, move on. Not today. I believe in it, yes indeed, but for today I am talking about our digital connections.
I got digital coming out my ..... fingertips. HA! Bet you thought I was going to say something else, didn't you. Yeah, there too.
In an effort to make my television viewing experience "better", Charter went "all digital". That means that you MUST have a cable box in order to get their products. No more of those cable ready TV's saving you a few bucks. So the TV in the kitchen has been rendered useless, good thing I have one of those digital ROKU box's so we can watch Netflix or something!
I have laptops, computers, a Kindle, an iPad, a tablet (oh yeah, that was "FREE" from my phone company, but that is another connected story") and phones. I have to have a special booster connected to the internet so that I can actually USE my phones in my house. I am wired up and out.
My company decided that we all need to go paperless (a good thing) and signed us up for DotLoop. My first two clients... DON'T HAVE EMAIL ADDRESSES! That was a corker, in this day and age? One will text 'til the cows come home, but no email, no way. The other.... well... there is someone I admire. Probably the LEAST connected person I know!
Of course my cars talk to me, they show me what song is playing on the radio (should I really be looking down to read that while I am driving? How about listening to the song instead?), their onboard computers tell me when something is wrong, when there might be ice on the road, when I have a flat, when I am low on gas, oil, you get it. They continually tell me something is WRONG, when are they going to tell me something is RIGHT? Postive goes a long way ya know.
How did I ever drive when we had windows to crank open, doors you had to lock manually, when you had to keep track of your last oil change... ghesh. Of course recently some master control went on one of our cars, the doors wouldn't unlock and the windows wouldn't go down. My husband was stuck in the car for about half an hour while my cousin watched from the outside in horror! Well, not in horror, he was actually laughing. Finally the car decided to unlock the doors... for a minute and my husband escaped. $900 dollars later it was fixed. Hmmmmm....
And of course there is my cell phone. Oh yeah, that lovely piece of equipment. I remember when I was thrilled that it was so small, of course that was before I had to actually read an offer on it. Now I need to have a larger pocket sewn on the back of my pants to carry it with me. Good thing my rear end can support that! And my carrier, in their infinite wisdom, made me switch to the "FRAMILY PLAN". No more contracts Andrea, you will save so much! I was thinking of which grandchild I could sell to pay my cell phone bills. Good thing they discontinued that "FRAMILY PLAN", I guess I wasn't the only one who had a heart attack when opening the bill. I was ready to find that hamster in that wheel on their commercial and choke him.
So, I am wired, connected, plugged in, locked and loaded and ready to go. And honestly, I dream about the black and white TV, about the big old black phone with the rotary dial, no answering machines, no way for people to reach me just for a bit. Nothing, just peace and quiet.
What will be next? Time to go, my phone just reminded me it's time to take my grandson to his karate class.
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