Playing telephone! That's Adam and our neighbor, Roland, playing telephone yesterday. I was demonstrating to Adam's mom how the digital camera works, which led to a demonstration of the slide show software and then exporting images to Chicken Blog. I don't have to imagine how challenging all of these skills were for me to learn, because I remember quite clearly how every step and process related to the computer was utterly foreign and practically foreboding. What delight and whimsy to briskly click away and make the magic happen, now that I have learned a thing or two...
I am impressed with all the tricks I have learned; for one, because it is not intuitive or even natural for me, and secondly because the possibilities and results from working with a digital camera and a computer are an incredible leap forward in memory gathering and presentation. I was mesmerized by the details and thoughtful execution of photo preservation that is so popular in Creative Memories and scrap book making, but the inertia and time it takes to put those albums together is daunting. I wound up buying a lot of stickers. Many, many stickers. And I was accumulating boxes of photographs that needed editing, sorting, warehouse size work tables and blocks of time that will not be realized until I am eighty.
To make a short story long: I really like my neat camera, cool computer, and organizing and sharing pictures with ease and immediacy. Mmm-mm good.
I am trying to think of a written expression or exclamation, something like Homer's "Do'h!" This expression is meant to sound like 'bemused self understanding' or maybe more like 'I am weak, hear me laugh.' I thought I was going to write deep thoughts and wondrous prose, but I drank half a beer with my late lunch and now I am too buzzed to find my own navel. It is fortunate that this makes me appreciative of my...something...I can't think very well right now...
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