the wonders of technology

living on either coast has its advantages and disadvantages. advantages would include beaches within a few minutes to hours' drive, more opportunities for advancement in careers, more career options, playing tourist in historical and fun places...i could go on but i won't. some disadvantages would be grandparents are far away (no babysitters on call whenever we have a need), we have to travel to see family, family and friends have to travel to see us (this could be both), cost of living is much higher. so i guess it all evens out but that's not what this post is about.

the wonders of technology have brought us closer and taken us farther than ever thought possible. we are connected by cell phones, facebook, blogs, skype. family and friends can be seen and heard from more frequently but in an indirect way through facebook. grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends can all watch pbs grow through pictures and video i've posted on facebook. we can all chat on the phone several times a week or not at all depending on how schedules match up. they can read about our adventures and what we are doing on this blog. they can see how active and tornado-like pbs is over the computer with skype. it's all so amazing to me!

i can remember being in elementary school and my dad coming home saying that some day we were going to have phones that had screens on them so we could see the person we were talking to. now we do! i know that my grandfather had a cell phone when he was 87 and some family members being amazed at how well he could use it because they had trouble turning on a computer.

the wonders of technology are just that wonders. it seems like the only people i talk to sometimes are the people working the register in a store or twice a week at church. js had the pleasure of talking to one of our county's finest yesterday when he was pulled over for "not paying full attention while operating his vehicle". he said the "officer" was rude and not willing to answer questions. the "officer" then proceeded to "forget" to give back his driver's license. js asked for it back and the "officer" took several minutes to find it and bring it back. finally upon bringing the license back, the officer said, "good thing you asked for that back. otherwise i would have had to pull you over for driving without a license"! seriously! the "officer" didn't show any id to js to let him know that he was an actual officer. shouldn't that be a given? where did the "officer's" people skills go? the wonders of technology have struck again. 

so instead of trying to catch up with everybody on facebook, call or skype and get out , talk and work on your people skills! quit reading this and give the wonders of technology a break for a few days.