Ahh..technology!

Parry and I just got Internet installed a few weeks ago at home.

The good news: I feel like I'm more in touch with my friends & family and I've been "reunited" with some old friends that I never thought I'd "talk" to again.

The bad news: I'm spending WAY too much time on the Internet! There is so much stuff out there, it's unbelievable. Don't get me wrong, I've been on the Internet and gotten pulled in many times before. But when it's right at your fingertips everyday...what a time sucker!

I've always been pretty slow to embrace technology. I was the last one in my social circle to get a cell phone, I just recently got a lap top (WINDOWS 98 got me through many years), and someone had to buy me a DVD player before I'd think of using one at home. I don't know what it is exactly about technology that keeps me away: the expense, the discomfort of change, or just a feeling of having to make do with what I have.

When it's all said and done, I do love the technology I have. It makes life so much easier.

For instance, the Internet. When I was a kid sitting around chatting with my Grandpa, we'd ask him lots of questions. If he didn't know an answer he'd say "Go look it up!". We'd dig out the correct book from the set of extremely expensive encyclopedias. (When my parents purchased these books they only received a few volumes in the mail at a time., it took forever to get the whole set.) In the encyclopedia there would be a few paragraphs about whatever topic we'd look up and we'd get a pretty good idea of what the answer would be for our questions. The initial question would lead to more questions and then we'd look those up and so on. This could last for hours. Now you can just type the subject into an Internet search engine & you have thousands of sources of detailed information right at your fingertips!

This is so amazing to me...I had to do an event this week and I chose to present a craft about platypuses (it was the cheapest/most educational project I could find!) It only took me about an hour to find the craft, become an expert on platypuses, and develop the presentation materials I needed for the event. AMAZING!!!!

Does anyone else out there share my wonderment as it relates to technology?