Are you addicted to your cell phone

[Mike Kieran]

Tomorrow, June 1, my wife and I celebrate 61 years togther. I don't understand what she ever saw in me, but then if I understood women............Egads, I don't want to even think about that.

Lynn

Wow, congratulations Lynn. We all wonder that, and no, we won't ever fully understand them, but we do just enough to keep things going and keep out of trouble... most of the time.

Just think back then Lynn, I'm sure you remember when you wanted to call home on the road you had to stop at a gas station and use a pay phone. If you wanted to "text" someone, you wrote them a letter and they got it a few days later. If you wanted to "chat" with someone, you hung over the fence with a neighbor or went to the local bar. Needed directions? You looked at a map, and if you still didn't know where you were, you had to ask someone local. Remember, all TV was in black and white and if you weren't there to see a show, tough luck, you missed it. My, my, how things have changed. I'm not saying that this is bad, but it is a radical difference than today's world and not everyone is aware of these changes. I was reading a computer "help" column and the question was, "what kind of tablet should I get for my kindergartener?" What the!!! I was about fifty before I got my first 286 with 640K of memory and a 20mb hard drive. Today we're talking mega power in a hand-held, making phone calls, texting, browsing the Internet, chatting, watching TV and finding you way around with built-in GPS. Yup, times have changed since we first got married, big time... 8-)

Here's a blast from the past...a word processor. My friend Jon's mom had one. It was a typewriter with an LCD screen that could take in one line at a time. You hit enter and it typed your sentence out.