How Sad Is It?

How sad is it that I can't come up with ten names of the people I speak with often on the telephone?

We recently got rid of both our land-lines and went totally cellular. The plan allows each of us to name ten people who we talk to the most, and those calls will be free all the time. The ten people have to be on some other cellular carrier than ours, and therein lies the rub. Most of the people I call (or call me) are already on our carrier. So, I can only come up with eight people, and some of them are people I barely ever speak with.

The telephone has taken a backseat around here since email was established. Not with mr. kenju, mind you, he is the king of gentleman phone talkers and can stay on it for hours at a time (not every day, but frequently.) I choose email for almost every communication these days, unless it is an emergency or I need a quick answer. Email is user-friendly, I think, in that the person you send it to can choose when it is convenient to answer (or if they want to answer) and of course, they can always return the communication on the phone, if that is their choice. My younger daughter, who is undoubtedly the reason the word "Crackberry" was coined, hates it when I email her instead of calling. But since she is never far from her phones (yes, two of them) I figure an email is the best way to go. But for some odd reason, when I email her with a time-sensitive message - she doesn't get it until it is too late. Go figure.

Anyway, do you want to be on my list of ten? LOL All appliers seriously considered.

That message is the main reason I don't want to use Internet Explorer anymore, and it's my fault that it comes up. At some point while I was downloading/installing an update, I got a page of questions and this was one of them - asking me if I wanted a warning every time a webpage is trying to open a site. I rue the day I checked "yes", even though I didn't really understand the ramifications of it.

I had no idea that it was going to ask me this eight times - yes, you read right - eight times to get into my OWN blog. Can you beat that?

I was hoping that some techie wizards would know where I go to uncheck the original question on this??!! Even though I vastly prefer Firefox, there are times when it is expedient for me to use IE, and I'd like to do so with less aggravation.

Links and Quotes and a Question

If you have any interest at all in the future of computer technology and where we are headed, see this.

It is mind-boggling! (and you don't have to be a genius to understand it!)

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It seems like the less a statesman amounts to the more he adores the flag.

Kin Hubbard, humorist (1868-1930)

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So, tell me: do you think Michelle Obama should or should not wear sleeveless dresses? I just heard on TV that some people are making a big stink about her choice of clothing. Since her arms are nicely toned, I don't see what the uproar is about. Do you? Some woman from Chicago emailed a TV show and said something like this: Mrs. Obama needs to realize that the events she attends are serious and she should dress in a more befitting fashion. I'd like to know why she thinks that sleeveless dresses are a poor choice and not formal enough.

I have thought most of her choices were nice, and I am enjoying watching our President's wife in pretty dresses; not wearing pants suits all the time. What do you think?