Category: 2021

Me and My Smartphone

I’ll write a post about home computers – I’ve been around them since their start – but today I want to talk about the tiny one that is my smartphone.

More than 45% of the world’s population has one; that’s about 3.5 billion, generally divided into 3 groups: the millennials (25-40 year-olds) who use theirs about 4 hours a day, Gen X (41-55) at 3, Baby Boomers (56-75) at 2.5… and I’m smack dab in the middle of the Boomers.

I seem to use my phone for, well, everything. That’s crazy of course – I have a huge variety of interests that don’t involve it. It remains my ‘telephone’, in fact my only phone since we’ve removed our land line, and I actually talk to people on it. But I text them a whole bunch more. It’s also my mobile computer and my camera.

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I’m Tired

I have taken a few days off from posting… or more specifically, from doing all the background work for posting. Instead I remind myself that it’s a longterm commitment and I don’t need to get notes “out there” with unrelenting regularity. I’m not trying to be famous.

I’m weary. We all are. The pandemic blankets us even as spirits are buoyed by vaccine progress. While I’ve set aside time to work here and I love doing so, I also have a slew of other commitments, not the least of which is monitoring a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old during their online school days.

This will all self-correct as COVID recedes and the world settles down but in the meantime post frequency will decline a bit.

There. I said it. I can already feel the pressure ease. Cheers!