ARGHA! WordPress — the platform that hosts Funny about Money — wants me to diddle away some time and energy updating this and dorking with that.
Like I have nothin’ else to do, right?
Now I have to pester our honored Web Guru — who also has nothin’ else to do, right? — to get him to do whatever the heck WordPress wants.
Am I the only troglodyte who resents the constant electronic intrusions on one’s time and attention?
grrrrrrrrrr…. Welp, I can’t complain about the Computer Life. F’r hevvinsake, I grew up in the 1950s. Beyond school, a kid had three avenues of access to the Outside World — television, movies, and print journalism. Most of these had to be politically correct — or else. And you had to pay for all of them, one way or another.
{and sigh…} I don’t recall that there were SO MANY demands on one’s time, back in the Dark Ages.
The evening news occupied half an hour — an hour or so if you watched the local news, too.
Of course, you weren’t killing time with blogging. 😀
By and large, you didn’t drive to nearly as many local sites: the grocery store, pharmacy, and local soda shop were within easy walking distance; the grade school was around the corner from our apartment and, a year or so later, my junior high school was a 15-minute bus ride from the pickup point outside our apartment.
The time I would have wasted in front of a computer — mostly cruising the Web and writing blog posts — was killed in front of the television. My mother and I had the TV going almost every moment we were conscious.
These days, I don’t even own a television. Instead, I kill FAR more time loafing with a laptop computer. But…at least a computer is interactive: better than sitting there going duuuuhhhhh in front of a TV all day.
“Don’t even own a television” strikes me as the most interesting part of this matter. Back in the Day, I would’ve been bereft without a TV to fill up the silent hours with pointless noise. I couldn’t begin to focus on my homework without the comforting babble of electronic blah blah blah going on in the background.
Today, silence is golden.
I find the background babble of a TV station — even one that’s running in some public place, such as a department store — to be extremely annoying. Yappa yappa yappa is aggravating, even when you’re not listening to it.
Times change. And people change with the times. I guess…
How about you? Do you let your TV drone on all the time, whether or not you’re actually watching it?
I only use the reception capabilities of my TV to watch broadcasts of American football games! Otherwise, I may connect it via HDMI to my laptop for videos from YouTube, or watch DVDs on the player.
I wish you would retrieve your automobile, as that would be a safer way to procure groceries than perambulation especially in the heat.
Unless I’m ABSOLUTELY certain that my driver’s license is valid, there’s no way in He!! I’m gonna use it to cruise around the city. lt works as ID…but why tempt a cop to look it up if you bash someone at a stoplight or get caught indulging in some shenanigan?
I suspect it’s better and safer to use the driver’s license as ID (as long as it lasts) and use public transit or Uber to navigate the streets. It’s a PITA of the first water, but nothing like the PITA that would result from getting into trouble with the authorities.
I don’t watch much tv anymore, but if it’s on, I’m watching it. When the show or movie is done, I’m done. I’d much rather listen to music than a droning tv.
Yeah. My parents and I used to have the TV blathering on through every waking moment. But here in my olde age, I just don’t need that racket! In fact, I don’t even own a TV set anymore. If there’s something I want to watch, I’ll download it from the Internet; if that’s unworkable, I just don’t watch it.