I came across a post, You Know You're Living in 2024 when..., and decided to select a few items to comment on (or, on which to comment if you insist😊).
1. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
Sue and I often text each other from her room to mine when we are just across the hall from each other. It is often links though, which would be difficult to verbalize. Most recently, she saw a linedance video that she wanted to share. Most of the time we will chat in person about things on the daily agenda.
2. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or almost 70 in my case) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
Pretty much. Sue reminds me to take my phone every time I leave the house. If she were to forget and if I were also to forget, Siri would remind me ss longas I also wouldn't have forgotten to ear my watch. In other words, it would take a lot of forgetting.
It's a safety issue for us and not so much a "I can't live without it" sort of thing.
3. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
Not quite, but close. The coffee machine is close to my chair, which also serves as my bed these days. I set it up the night before and press the start button almost as soon as I wake up By the time I return to the room from completing morning necessities, the coffee has brewed, and I sit down with it and turn the computer on. So the two events – coffee and going online – pretty well occur concurrently.
Taking the phone with me is a new thing for me as of this past week. Long story short, a situation occurred when a phone would have been so helpful. I dislike bordering on hate those things.
ReplyDeleteI've been carrying my phone for safety reasons for many years now. Even room to room. And definitely out walking.
ReplyDeleteMy watch is hooked to my phone, so if I forget it, I get a message telling me I'm no longer connected.
ReplyDelete1. We sometimes text when both in the same house, but usually it is because there are others in the house whom we don't necessarily want to hear what we are texting about.
ReplyDelete2. I feel naked when I discover I'm without my cellphone. I hate myself for feeling like that, especially when I was the last person I know to obtain a cellphone. But I still try to use good manners and not use it whenever I'm with someone else so they can have my undivided attention. Sadly, this is not reciprocated as often these days.
3. I don't drink coffee. It depends on the day what I do first. If it is a weekend when the kids are allowed computer time, I have to do my computer reading as soon as I wake up. On weekdays when they are in school and not allowed to use electronics, I can do other things first and then use the computer at my leisure later on in the morning.
We don't text, we call. Mark doesn't like to text.
ReplyDeleteI've had a cellphone since the dinosaur days when the were larger than a cordless phone! I always take it with me.
I make pour over coffee so I need to put a kettle on to boil. I do that then read some blogs until the kettle whistles. I come back after I've made the coffee.
I do coffee first then check my email or start playing my word and geography games. I need a sharp(er) brain! I've forgotten my cell phone sometimes; there are too many important things on it these days like my Sbux card, my grocery pick up info, etc. I hate that!
ReplyDeleteRoutines help us in our daily tasks. May I suggest that you text each other because you don't hear that well.
ReplyDeleteOh definitely depend upon my cell phone...and will turn around if not more than a mile away when I've forgotten it. Panic ensues when I can't find it in the little apartment. The rocker/recliner eats it sometimes in the sides of the cushion. But it's a sneaky little devil and I often find it's been placed in a "not normal" place which is also dark, so it's camouflaged. Supposedly it's calendar links to the one on my laptop, but I sometimes miss something because the google side of things doesn't have that event posted on the laptop. There should be a word for how we cope with/without technology!
ReplyDeleteI TRY to not check e-mail until I get to the U or am doing U work in my office (Saturdays). But, the nagging nudge of the damnable phone sometimes has me looking as a hoped for palliative for the day (or a horror if I am flooded with student e-mails…. usually desperate about something).
ReplyDeleteI will text sometimes in the house when we are in distant locations, but it seems foolish to do so.
I dislike my phone and forget it often…. but then I must be tethered to the damn thing anytime at the U for “authentication” for virtually everything.
What I dislike about my phone the most is that it feels ENORMOUS and does not easily/comfortably fit into a pocket without being exceedingly distracting. Back when phones were smaller (the iPhone 4 I had for instance), it was far easier for the thing to fit in any pocket. Hell, I could comfortably even have it ALONG WITH a pipe in my shirt’s breast pocket.
The current phone is like a pachyderm and will not even FIT in some of my shirt pockets and it was the smallest model they had.
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Well, we haven't given in to the first one, but I do always have my phone with me. Riding around in my wheelchair I tell myself it's in case of emergencies. As for the third, yes I'm totally online before coffer, 'cause I use it to mitigate pain until my caregiver gets here, and I have to wait for someone else to make the coffee anyway!
ReplyDeleteI have to say, your blog is one I've wanted to comment on frequently, so I'm glad I've finally figure out how to do this. Your various photo efforts are really interesting.
It is an essential tool in life these days
ReplyDeleteTimes sure have changed.
ReplyDeleteI love sitting here, when the kids are here, and text one of them. It is fun. Funny!
1 and 3, no. Tea first, then coffee. Never have texted or emailed someone near me. Still living in the dark ages, I guess.
ReplyDeleteYup! I feel naked if I leave home without my cellphone. Art and I will also text each other if we're on different floors of the house. We've even been known to call each other with our cellphones.
ReplyDeleteAnd oh yes, we definitely check our phones before we go down to breakfast because we never know if our kids texted from the other side of the world or Chicago.
I don't leave the room without my phone, and don't leave it across the room, if I can help it.
ReplyDeleteI am in line with you. I usually read the newspaper on my phone with my morning coffee. Texting teenagers upstairs is definitely easier than shouting. Also more likely to get a response.
ReplyDeleteI often leave my phone at home, never wanting to be attached to it. But I will say it goes with me if I think I might be in an unsafe zone, out at night, or to the doc's office (or similar -- when I know I'll have to wait!)
ReplyDeleteOh dear, you and Sue are so much like me and TG. We text each other even though right now he is sitting about twelve feet from me (albeit his back to me, in the next room, with French doors closed between us so that my cat does not escape from the sun room where she is currently sitting on my lap, not that that would be a disaster but I don't like her getting up on the kitchen counters). We also share links via iMessage, and on Instagram. We talk about them later, haha! No one ever reminds me to take my phone with me and maybe that's why, from time to time, I do forget it. And yes, that is an on-the-wire-with-no-net-below kind of feeling. No internet for me without that coffee in my hand, hahaaha! But I have to go into the kitchen anyway, to feed Rizzo, and with my Keurig, the coffee is made in a few minutes. xoxo
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