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Wow, and I'm just now trying to remember to actually carry my phone. For several years I've had a cell phone but never carried the stupid thing. I only had it for those rare occasions when I'd run to the grocery store without a list, then forget something and have to call back home to see what it was I was about to forget.
Last week I purchased a 2007 model Palm device so that I can upload a couple of nursing programs onto it rather than have to rely on the hospitals computers to look things up. So I guess I'm just the opposite. I really dont' like carrying this thing around but, if I don't learn to carry it around, I'll leave it sit somewhere and that will be a larger problem all together.
If they still sold PDA, at least if they were reasonably easy to find around town, I'd probably have purchased one of those instead. As it was I had to find a device (they don't really call them phones anymore) that would allow me to store programs but not require I purchase a stupid data package that ultimately would cost more each month than what I use to pay for a traditional land line.
Sometimes I wonder how we ever got to this point. It use to be a household had one phone. That phone line cost less than $10/month unless you were making long distance calls. Heck, even back in the mid 70's, depending upon where you lived, the one line might be a shared line (party line) rather than a private line. We actually had one of those back in 1976 or 1977 when we moved to a slightly more rural neighborhood in Jefferson City, MO.
Now I have a land line that's tied into my internet connection and T.V connection but, the total cost is around $160/month. I get over 100 channels of super clear reception on a 52 inch screen but, I probaly only watch half a dozen of those channels which are strategically placed over 3 different tiers of coverage. We also have three mobil devices (Onstar in one of the cars is part of our mobil package) and I pay $122/month for those.
So 30 years ago we were paying less than $10/month for phone and TV service (a computer back then might be a calculator that you weren't allowed to use in math class. Remember slide rules?). Today I'm paying a little over $300, just to stay connected. Gee, and we all complain about timeshare MF's going up each year.
And yes, I have looked and my mobil device is right in front of me. So far, so good.
Last week I purchased a 2007 model Palm device so that I can upload a couple of nursing programs onto it rather than have to rely on the hospitals computers to look things up. So I guess I'm just the opposite. I really dont' like carrying this thing around but, if I don't learn to carry it around, I'll leave it sit somewhere and that will be a larger problem all together.
If they still sold PDA, at least if they were reasonably easy to find around town, I'd probably have purchased one of those instead. As it was I had to find a device (they don't really call them phones anymore) that would allow me to store programs but not require I purchase a stupid data package that ultimately would cost more each month than what I use to pay for a traditional land line.
Sometimes I wonder how we ever got to this point. It use to be a household had one phone. That phone line cost less than $10/month unless you were making long distance calls. Heck, even back in the mid 70's, depending upon where you lived, the one line might be a shared line (party line) rather than a private line. We actually had one of those back in 1976 or 1977 when we moved to a slightly more rural neighborhood in Jefferson City, MO.
Now I have a land line that's tied into my internet connection and T.V connection but, the total cost is around $160/month. I get over 100 channels of super clear reception on a 52 inch screen but, I probaly only watch half a dozen of those channels which are strategically placed over 3 different tiers of coverage. We also have three mobil devices (Onstar in one of the cars is part of our mobil package) and I pay $122/month for those.
So 30 years ago we were paying less than $10/month for phone and TV service (a computer back then might be a calculator that you weren't allowed to use in math class. Remember slide rules?). Today I'm paying a little over $300, just to stay connected. Gee, and we all complain about timeshare MF's going up each year.
And yes, I have looked and my mobil device is right in front of me. So far, so good.
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