A Brand New Computer for me.

What do you do with all this stuff? Just the basic keyboard is the same. Maybe it is not even a computer but it works like one to me. The thing cost about 399.99$ as they always do. All the operating stuff and package for service and to get them to make it do what it is supposed to do was about another $399.99

So I think I am low end. My first computer back in about 1984 was bought in a deal for 6 of them all tied into a phone service that must have been PA Bell because I think MA Bell was gone by then.

We did not have "cell" phones back then, but the deal had two "car" phones that my partner and I got. The average monthly "car phone" bill was about $1,200.00

My children leave me alone.

Not really they bug me all the time and we love each other.

But sometimes I like to pretend I am just to old and gray and nobody cares about me any more.

So I include this sad song. But do not worry I have another with someone staring out their back door?

Well here is the cool thing about that computer/phone integration thingy bobby we had. When a client would call the "midas" would trap the number and auto print and send a bill.

I was a two hundred dollars and hour then and would only bill in increments of 15 minutes. So one time a buddy called me up to donate 20 tickets for a charity I did pro bono work for. He was a lineman for the San Diego Chargers. And he kicked in my door and hit me so hard I woke up 2,000 miles away in Vermont.

So I guess I am a little bit cautious with newfangled ditty my widgets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

My family technically still owns a party line connection. Until we change owners they have to leave it with us.

OK there is no one else left on the line. Ours is a two ringy dinging and Thompson's was a one and Fredells were a three and so on. They are all dead now.

This is a true story. Oak Creek Canyon, Indian Garden, Old Indian trail about 4 miles up from Sedona Arizona.

I have dutifully not released the whole names to protect the innocent --- and I did see an innocent back in '92.

I think it really helps me to write/right better. I know that is silly. When I took or sat for a Bar exam back about the time you were born, we were the first they allowed to use electric typewriters. I did not use one I used my pappy's Underwood, if you get that you must also get a Social Security check.

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