I have two prompts for myself to write today. They are related to each other, both having to do with modern smartphones and their use. I do own a reasonably smart phone. It is a Motorola phone, not the ubiquitous iPhone. Every time I see or hear "Motorola", I am only ten years old again, listening to The Lone Ranger on my bedroom table top radio.
In our house, we have Panasonic phones for our landline and I encourage their use, although with my deteriorating hearing, if someone calls and leaves a message, I often cannot decipher what they said to our answering machine. Many electronic tasks in a modern household are explained by instructions that assume I have a smartphone quite close at hand and am familiar with everything it can do.That idea is far from true.
I am still vibrating with excitement over email. I remember the excitement I felt in about 1990 over my discovery of email. I realize that many friends and relatives don't look at email accounts for the good reason that nothing happens in them. It's "texting", you silly old guy!
