I will be posting more about the Fam. Fest. when I have more information to give to you. In the interim, I will be complaining, pontificating, whining, commenting and opining.
The weather is somewhat cooler today than it has been for the past week. It was actually pleasant outside this morning when I retrieved my paper from the porch. It felt better out there than it did in the house. The AC has run, non stop for days and days. I shudder to think what my bill will be. I think my ceiling fans need to be reversed, they were set for winter and I cannot climb up there to reverse them. Next person that comes to visit will be asked to do the task for me.
I have planted my tomato plant and I go out to check on it two or three times a day. I discovered this morning that I can check on it from my bedroom window that overlooks the deck. So far so good. I also bought two Impatient plants and they also have survived. Maybe the ravenous squirrel has found a better feeding place. Great!
I have a new cell phone. It is not at all exciting. It lives up to its name, "Cell Phone". I can call people up on it and they can call me up on it and we can chat and hang up. They must identify themselves when they call, no pictures to remind me to whom I am speaking and if I call them they must imagine me in their mind's eye because there is no picture of me when they answer. If they are familiar WITH me, they already know what I look like and if they are familiar TO me, I know what they look like. If neither of us know the other it is just as well that we remain anomymous.The greatest feature of my new cell phone is that when you pick the phone up to answer it, your finger is no longer on the "shut off" button and the volume of the 'ringer' stays where you put it and does not shut down so that you cannot hear it ring. I cannot text, access the inter-net, read my e-mails, take pictures, play music or view films. It is truely a utility phone! I love it!!!
I can carry my phone around in a little holster! Sounds ominous but it is non threatening, it also has a little charger that you slip the phone into when you sleep and it charges it up. How clever is that? I have been instructed to carry it with me at all times so that if I fall down and can't get up, I'll have my phone right there with my 911 button and my ICE button with my immergency contact numbers and all. Problem is ,what if I knock myself out when I go crashing down? What if I am scantily clad and there is nowhere to clip the holster. EX. night gown, unders, towel (as in I just finished my shower and have a towel on) It all seems so simple doesn't it?
Some of the exotic features that the phones and internet connections have in this day and time can be life altering. As for me I got along without all those features on my phone before and I guess I can get along without them now. I just deleted about two paragraphs of my objections to some of the features availaable but I will let it go. (So to speak).
I do get a lot of pleasure out of the pictures that are now available to me on my PC. Some on Face Book and some by e-mail. Shannon sent pictures this morning of their vacation at a Lake in Indiana. The pictures were beautiful. The two boys and Lenny and Shannon all looked so contented and rested. Gregg and Brian share a lot of their pictures with me. I have some from the Indy 500, which Gregg, Brian, Brett and Linda attended, some from the TOL which I got to attend and the Derby which was well attended this year by most all of the family. I go back and look at all of the pictures, over and over. I do all of this on my PC but no phon-y pictures!
I have mixed feelings about FB. I'm almost afraid to post comments on there for fear that my wit will be misinterpreted and I will come across as being harsh, sarcastic, mean, whatever. I must admit, I am sarcastically witty at times and those that know me well can deal with it but not always. I sometimes think that too much information is posted at times but that's OK. When some people say their life is an open book they are possibly referring to FACEbook. I get it! On the other hand I am so amused by some of the posts and the responses to them that I hasten to check each day to see what's new. Face people keep it up! I enjoy reading all of the posts. Modern technology is indeed miraculous.
Call me so I can take my phone out of its little holster and guess who you are!!! Cioa
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