I now know how our parents must have felt...

DO you remember when VCR's and cable came out?? Remember just waiting for that cable truck to come through your neighborhood, and hoping beyond all hope that your parents would sign you up?? The whole process,, scheduling, digging up the lawn,, and then there they were,,, 20 whole channels instead of 4 (yes, I'm counting the U, as in the original FOX network), back when MTV actually played videos...

I'm not sure how technologically savvy your parents were, but mine had no idea,,, My dad still plays albums, honestly.... I distinctly remember the day he brought home the VCR... My brother was at soccer practice or something and my dad tried and tried until the scandalous phrase was uttered,,,"damn it all to hell",, that's when you knew it was bad... I boldly asked if I could help, only to be shut down by "you won't be able to do it, Scott will do it when he gets home"... (trust me the sexism is a whole different post)... So I waited until he was settled into a good crossword puzzle, and then went at it... had it done in no time,,, then didn't even tell him,,, let him think Scott did it when he got home,, damn it,,, But I clearly remember how stupid I thought they must have been for not being able to figure it out,, I mean really.....

Fast forward 26 years... I'm 41... I don't have kids, so I don't even have the little ones to pawn this crap off on as a 'challenge to see who can get it done the fastest'.... Just me .... and I find myself actually being happy I don't have kids, because they would be laughing at my complete incompetence, which would only piss me off even more,, damn kids...

So I can get around a computer, for the most part... enough to be dangerous, but can get the things done I need to get done,,,,, although tonight at work, 7:00 was quickly approaching and I couldn't figure out how to get my contract from word saved into PDF format.... what did I do??? I am shamed to admit,, I printed it, walked down to the frickin' huge HP printer, copier, cloner and emailed it to myself... Wa La... PDF... forwarded to the client,, and was mildly proud of myself (although shame has ultimately won out)...

Shameful instance number two,,,, The morons down the hall are so frickin' loud that I actually went out and bought an IPOD,,,, told the sales kid I wanted one his mother could use,,, Well apparently he was younger than he looked as his mother must be 20... I sat here, read my 2 by 3 inch instruction 'manual',, which basically said, plug it in,,, and was determined to get some music downloaded,, so I didn't have to lug my CD's to the office... (sounds almost as bad as albums in this days doesn't it).... Well 3 and a half HOURS later I was happy with my mere 24 songs,,,, until I did the math and figured I'd be listening to the same damn shit all day long,,, CD's were starting to look good... Was talking to a friend about it,, and realized that his 10 year old could probably have done the whole 9 yards in about 1 minute 30.... Damn kids...

So this is what I have surmised,,, this struggle between modern and 'old timer' technology has gone on for ever: How'd Eve get those leaves to stay just so? Oh,, she used that new vine she found, thinks she's really hot.... How'd Noah built that boat so big? Oh he used these things called nails,,, made of some metal substance,, thinks he's so smart, who ever heard of that much rain? How'd Charlie get the candles in his house to stay lit for so long? Oh he's got that new stuff called electricity,,, it will never last... How'd Bill get all that information in one place? Oh he created this thing called a personal computer.... no one will buy it, really what good is that, just give me paper and a type writer....

Well I tell you what.... I guess I was born in the wrong century... I can light a candle like nobodies business...