All the Little Gadgets
I’ve been dealing with a lot of technology lately. Kind of strange for me, but then, that’s the way things are now, isn’t it? At one point this week I realized that in my purse I was carrying an iPod, a dictaphone, and TWO cell phones.
Why two cell phones? Well…with my hubby’s job, traveling all over with soccer teams, he has to have a cell phone or be out of touch for a majority of the time — especially those three hectic months in the fall season. Because of that, we had his phone, our land line, and my Tracfone (one of those pre-paid deals). The Tracfone worked great for the little I travel, but it turns out that it’s actually cheaper for us to get another cell phone on a family plan, and drop the land line altogether. So I’ve been carrying around both cell phones this week, hoping to transfer my contacts over to the new phone whenever I get a chance.
On another technological side, I have been working on updating my web site. My web designer, after four years, has decided that her life (which is not spent as a full-time designer) is just too hectic to take care of my site anymore, so I had to find a new person. Between the new guy and my site host (who is a very generous cousin-in-law) I think we’ll finally get new information up soon. Not something I know anything about. The new guy and my cousin have cc’ed me on their e-mails, and with all this talk of zipping up sites, curling things, and who knows what all, I’ve decided I’m quite stupid on the subject. Thank God for people who know what they’re doing.
I also have a new e-mail address since — believe it or not — I’d been on dial-up until two weeks ago. We still don’t have actual High Speed Internet, since it’s inaccessible out here in the boonies, but I did manage to get wireless from Verizon, which is about three or four times faster than what I did have. So it’s better. Not spectacular, but better.
A funny note — with all the technology flying around here these days, I am still recording TV shows on a portable VCR. No TiVo for us, and no digital access yet. I do have those coupons just lying on my desk, but will have to force myself one of these days to actually go out and use them.
So it’s just been high/low tech here in the Clemens household. Not my expertise, but there’s no getting around it these days.
Anybody else have tech stories to tell?
