Technological Foo

So today thought I would write another entry, but noooooooo my internet provider decided to have a crisis right in the middle of me trying to post it, and all my writing went down into the black hole of Ethernet nothingness. Seriously, I hate tech foo. I am not the greatest at computers; after all they weren't a household thing until after I graduated high school. All the tech stuff that has come out in the past few years makes my little head swim and try to explode.
   Think about this, when I was a young girl I first heard music either live or on reel to reel (look it up if you have to) and then there was eight tracks. Yeah the new car was styling cause it had a built in eight track player, whoo hoo that's nothing now. Then of course there were albums, you know those large vinyl things that played music had two sides also came in the small 45 size. You listened to a whole album at a time. Cassettes came along and then there was the Sony Walkman, you were cool if you had your Sony Walkman and a London Fog jacket (black with the little epaulets on the shoulder).  In high school a long comes a techno break thru... the CD, oh holy cow! The CD was going to and did revolutionize the music. And then there was CD players and at first were those things expensive; only the cool rich kids had those.  Slowly they became affordable for everyone. Just as I was getting comfortable with that and out comes this thing called an MP3 player. Welcome to the digital age of music. Now you can get just the songs you want with out ever going into an actual music store. Places like Sam Goody and FYI slowly lost ground to iTunes and even the giant Amazon (where you can get anything), and you only got the songs that you wanted. Books came out about how to create the ultimate play lists and what you should be listening too. I ended up owning two iPods, don't as to why I need two, I just do.
   Well I thought I was getting comfortable with that and then my children introduced me to social media; MySpace, Facebook, and others, what the heck were those. So under the pressure of geeky linked in children I made my peace and packed away my stationary and became a member of the digital age with access points here and there and in-between it seemed like. I learned what browsers were the best to use, me I am a Firefox person. What social media I liked, turned out to be Facebook and discovered that there were others like me out there struggling in this new stuff.
  Still I have issues when the internet connection goes wonky and for no apparent reason, I really think I need my own personal IT guy. I swear at the computer or the Xbox 360 when they don't do what I want. My conversations with the Kinect are always hilarious.  I think I have a handle on this and now the questions of smart phones and tablets are jogging up to me to say hi. I am not sure that I have the strength to go through that battle yet. Do I really need a phone that does all that a smartphone does? How is a tablet better than a laptop and what if I don't ever want to get an e reader. I like books.  Its all just technical foo to me today.

                    Atypical Life in AK