Boomers & Technology

I am a proud Baby Boomer -- and we Boomers LIKE being on the "edge". In our liftime, music went from vinyl records to 8-track, to cassettes, to CD's and now totally digital -- with Ipods and MP3 players...

I spend 6 hours a day on a computer -- and I have mad skills. If I can't figure it out -- I TAKE A CLASS. I've been taking classes for years -- and in the last year, I figured out blogging and digital photography -- and it has all been a GOOD thing. Instead of dozens of rolls of undeveloped film -- I actually take pictures, file them on my computer, and frequently POST them in this blog.

But I've hit the wall. I'm done. My brain has absorbed all it can. And somebody with a little common sense has to say ENOUGH ALREADY. We need to all sign a piece of paper that says technology has GONE FAR ENOUGH!! Really. NO MORE. DONE... I've reached my limit...

Hey -- I'm no techno-phobe! At this point in time -- we rarely even bother to "check the mail" because we do everything online. We pay our bills, I keep in touch with friends... Instead of the Post office dropping Saturday delivery -- I think they should make Saturday the ONLY day they deliver. Emily calls bringing in the mail our "semi-annual event".

Boomers embrace new technology. We BUY EVERYTHING....which means, in our lifetime, many stereo systems, dozens of PHONES, cameras, VCR's, then DVD players, three or four generations of computers...every single thing has a learning curve. And sooner or later -- WE GET IT...

But I am officially DONE.

In January, John had to have a new flat screen television...we could no longer live without HIGH DEF....

Okay. this means a box must be hooked up between our television set and our cable company. I just about had it figured out when Elliott & Ross gave me a fancy "entertainment system" for my birthday. This new DVD player has six speakers -- and IT all must be hooked up with the new flat screen television and cable box...

You realize there are now three remotes -- right?

So here's where we're at right at this minute.

After several hours of frustration last night, with John giving me yet another "lesson" in how to use the various remotes to combat the dreaded blue screen of death that says "no signal"....he finally got it all coordinated again...(it was all about components and inputs)...when he said, "we're just going to have to leave the TV on 24 hours a day"...

And he wasn't even laughing...

So now you understand the dull blue light inside the windows of the Assisted Living complex in your town...it's old people -- afraid to turn off their television sets when they go to bed at night...