Skype and other things I neglected to get...

Have you ever felt that you were perhaps out of the trendy loops? And later found out what you perceived to be a, ‘fad’ became a classic concept? For me it has been many times; if you were wondering. Just a few minutes ago someone, a Facebook friend asked me to join him on Skype and instead of fessing-up that I did not have the ability to Skype due to no camera or whatever you need to do that sort of thingy, and so I deleted the request. I also believe he would cringe at the sight of the real me…! Mystery is better with these glorious friends online anyway! Just from doing or not doing for some they have a tendency to drop off like flies anyway. But than my curiosity got the best of me and so I went to his page and saw that he looked like he was rather a nice person with a few hundred Facebook friends and so when I noticed that we only had one in Facebook buddy in common, so I decided to search his friend base to try and see who it was… it took me a while but I did, and unbeknownst to me, I had a rather pleasant surprise… his friend is also one of my favorite authors that is also a rather nice guy, i.e. to my slim actual knowledge of him from a few short messages back and forth…but who knows really, really? Sadly, I still do not have the ability to Skype, oh well… such is life! I was late on Atari and Xerox, never happened since at the tender age of twelve my Dad did not believe that such a funny named company could come to anything that was back in 1962. Oh that’s right I bet you all are wondering how a twelve year old could know about a company like Xerox? Well, even if you weren’t wondering, here comes the how…My seventh grade teacher Mr. Piazza, thought it would be a great Math lesson to let his class dabble in the Stock Market with an imaginary ten thousand dollars to spend and I cleaned up with my choices and his suggestions…I had bought Xerox and few other up and coming stocks due to my/his research that he told us about… and all I wanted to do was share with Daddy, but would you take a stock tip from a twelve year old, really? Dad also was offered a deal on a few McDonald’s by his cousin too, way back in 1965, the year he sold his own business and he felt he was done with work after thirty eight years owning his own and so he nixed the idea! I am sorry to say that he did get antsy after six months of not working and worked part-time until a year before his death when he was seventy-nine. And perhaps I got that wait and see gene from him? Computers we got into fairly early though, with two little boys bugging us for one at the time in 1982, a Commodore 64 and it was a learning tool and we needed it for our growing business too. But for some reason I stood my ground on Atari, I felt it would make our outdoor kids who played outside games with friends and rode bicycles, couch potatoes, and a new concept back then. But I finally changed my mind when a teacher told me that the game taught excellent hand and eye co-ordination, and so I was sold. But my sons were never clumsy, they were if anything quite capable, but I caved since all the other kids had one…shame on me! The rule was mostly to play after dinner and homework I do believe, and since it took over the TV, it was instead of, but even then we had more than one. Back when, as a student in college where I studied fads and classic things through interior decorating, fashion, history of art, and any other topics that suggested, at least in the fashion world that styles ran in seven year cycles. And anything that was classic was forever and was cycle-less! Maybe, I got that slightly wrong, but gosh that was over forty years ago, so give me a recall break! An update for me…sadly this writing is becoming painful every once and a while and that is physically, not with me trying to keep my noggin active though I thrive on that… My shoulders hurt so badly last night that I did not get much sleep, and that is pain and numbness, alternating, back and forth, all part of my MS. Sometimes it goes away and sometimes it lasts way too long… All I am saying is that I got to find another way to do this, I do know about Dragon Dictation, but it was very expensive… we will see… what the future brings…hopefully more sleep and less pain! Any-who, allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?