Keeping up with Technology

My goodness the technology is growing and changing so fast that I must admit to having a hard time keeping up. My granddaughter, Haley, stopped by the other day and was showing me the brand new phone that she bought.

This phone is more like a multi-function device instead of a phone. You can make calls with it, but it also sends text messages, lets you get on the internet, provides GPS mapping, plays music and movies, and take pictures and videos. Its like a tiny computer, Walkman and Kodak all mixed together in a tiny box with a screen.

I don’t think I can justify spending $600 on a cell phone with all those extra gadgets. It would take me a very long to just learn how to use them all. I’m glad Haley is young and able to learn all of this as she goes. Catching up is getting harder to do as each day goes by, and I don’t think I can keep up with these young people with their fancy technology any more.

Cotton Candy

As a kid, one of the extra special nice things about special shows and events was the food and treats that you bought there because it was unusual or unique to that event.

When you went to the movies, you got a big tub of buttered popcorn, a big box of unusual candy – like Jujubees or Dots – and a coke.

If we went to the state fair, we got corn dogs and snow cones covered in a flavored syrup. And if we were very lucky we got a cotton candy.