Becoming My Grandfather

[good_ol_don]

...Not that that's a bad thing, mind you. My father's father was an excellent man, and very much my hero. I just didn't realize when I wished I could grow up to be just like him, it would come true in so many INTERESTING ways

Comments

[kayoteelsewhere]

I agree!

I don't think I've ever used a fax machine.

I've owned a cell phone since undergrad--but it lives in my car turned off. I have it for emergencies. I'm quite happy with my $5 a month service, and see no need for paying more to lug something around people can bug me with.

I do own an mp3 player--I won it, and decided it was useful for mowing the lawn. Though given how little I use it (I've grown to really like silence), not running out and buying one was a good choice.

[good_ol_don]

I've owned a cell phone since undergrad--but it lives in my car turned off. I have it for emergencies. I'm quite happy with my $5 a month service, and see no need for paying more to lug something around people can bug me with.

Oh, if only the wife wouldn't chew me out for this. Or I decided I needed to call my friends all over the country so much.

I do own an mp3 player--I won it, and decided it was useful for mowing the lawn. Though given how little I use it (I've grown to really like silence), not running out and buying one was a good choice.

I'm awfully fond of silence, too. Especially while reading.

[crimsonlotus84]

God, I can only wish to be like my grandfather. But as things are turning out now I'm turning more into my father and that's a scary, angry thought. Not to mention the gut...

[good_ol_don]

I call a Jihad on body fat. Seriously.

[galanadra]

Cell phones are handy for people who are in busy relationships, or at least it seems to be so. I want an mp3 player, but my sister gave me one then took it back after I fixed it, so I consider that a sign to wait. :) I have to use a fax machine for some things, and also my previous job required it, so...

Just because you can't use something, and so therefore don't own one, doesn't mean you have a technology aversion. It just means that you're not overly materialistic and MUST OWN STUFF. I personally like to own things I can use, too, but then I usually get by with what I absolutely need.

Yeah, I'm a little on a tangent, but the difference was miniscule. I'll go back to working on math now.

[good_ol_don]

I have to admit that you're particularly right about the materialism. I tend to be one of those people whose thought is, "I won't use it if it's not there for me to expressly use."

That's why my wife can't understand why I don't ever go buy new clothes or anything. I mean, I do ... but loud shirts are only ever around for one season a year.

[haplo3k]

I parsed the recent meme to just be asking me about my mp3 collection, so while I don't have an mp3 player either, I just used Winamp. It's what I play mp3s with...!

[good_ol_don]

True. And I would be the same way, except I don't have mp3s on the new 'puter. Just the old one. And the only times I'm on the old one are to play Neverwinter Nights or to write my novel.

Which, incidentally, is almost at 13000 words. Very exciting.

[lateniteramen]

So ... with the new meme that's going around about the top 20/50/100/2000 songs on your mp3 player

*cough*6000*cough*

And I may only ever own a cell phone in lieu of a land line once I get my own place.

[good_ol_don]

Where are you at, now, anyway?

[lateniteramen]

Still in the dorms until December.

[good_ol_don]

And then where are you headed?