Computer learning curves can be steep especially when one’s email account has been comprised. Just when you think you got your computer the way you want it, something happens. I can understand why a number of older persons just do not have computers or why so many young people rely on smart phones for communicating, not computers. I complain about not having time to read books but if I could get some of the time messing with computers back I could have read a library by now. The balance of computers vs. human interaction and use of imagination is made harder by the new technology coming out all the time and the urge to keep up with it.

When I was young we were told that with the advance of technology we would have more leisure time. However, the opposite seems to be true. The more technology the more work is expected from fewer workers. One’s leisure time seems to be filled with technology.

This afternoon we stepped out of a theater on the East side and were looking on our app on phone for a restaurant around us. We were in an area full of restaurants, some a few yards away. Since it looked like rain we decided to get our car first in nearby parking lot. After we crossed the street by the theater we saw a German bar and restaurant. We went it and enjoyed a delightful, quality, not so expensive German food and I a beer, Pat a local-made root beer. Just looking and seeing turn out to be better than any phone app.

I am glad there is no app or computer that can tend to our gardens, flowers, herbs and vegetables. Gardening is a good escape from the world of technology. Enjoying nature does not have a high learning curve and is a more simpler\complex beauty. Nature changes naturally while technology changes rapidly.

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