Feelin' oooold.

[swiftdog2.0]

Funny.

Along those same lines, I took my niece to the mall one day a couple years back and we went into Newbury Comics, which is a local independent record store chain. I told her I was going over to the vinyl section. She said, "What the heck is vinyl?"

I cut her some slack because she was only 14 at the time. I told her that I would have to have a long talk with her Dad (my brother) about how he is letting down his daughter by not ensuring she is properly educated about the different forms of music media!

Jokes on her though, vinyl is having a revival of sorts

 

[EMTP513]

I thought I was the one who felt old all the time. I tease Richard and tell him that I'm keeping him around so I DON'T feel old. He has no concern about his age, but he said now that he's 64 he likes to listen to the old song by the Beatles called 'When I'm 64.'
He has no concern telling his age. I have a feeling that not wanting to reveal age is mostly a thing that women find uncomfortable. At least THIS woman does.

 

[EMTP513]

Tor is 22 months, and has become an all-terrain baby. Today he was standing on the table, and he found an outlet (of sorts) hiding behind a calendar on the wall.

Anya, my 18 year old, ran off to find the adults...and this is where I start feeling ancient.

She said, "Tor is trying to poker's finger into.....something....it looks like a USB port?!"

Can you guess what it actually was?
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It was a PHONE JACK! Apparently in today's cellular world, these are unrecognizable to the next generation. It may as well have been a spinning wheel, except I think she would know what that was. A 45rpm record, perhaps?

Life is changing fast for these young people.

You should see how I felt when I asked Richard what those things in his pictures of his Vietnam experience.

He looked askance at me, as if he thought I was joking or something, and said "They're called weapons of war. That's what we used to keep our butts out of a sling, so to speak."
"Those are WEAPONS? They look ancient."
"Well I don't know about 'ancient.' But yes, they're old."
"I've never seen anything like them."
"Well now you have," said. "I'm always glad to enlighten people."
He makes me crack up laughing. He reminds me of Woody Harrelson. His delivery when he speaks reminds me of it.

 

[cat in a bag]

We still have a landline, but never use it. When we had our phone line/internet mishap last weekend, one of the troubleshooting things they wanted me to do was test my dial tone...I had unplugged the phone from the jack and the wall (it's cordless, so needs power) when I was cleaning behind the couch and didn't plug it back in. I couldn't find the power cord anywhere...I have a whole drawer full of old power cords, and none of them were the right one. I finally found one that worked, and then had to wait for the phone to charge enough to test the dial tone.

 

[Out of Order]

We have a land line as well. Have to - no cell reception at the house. The kids can text, but no calls. We have a cordless downstairs and an older push button upstairs. Need a corded phone for when we lose power.

 

[hipmamajen]

We have a creaky old landline that the printer is hooked to, but we haven't sent a fax in quite some time though.

It rings sometimes, but it doesn't have a handset, and eventually rolls to my cell. It's almost never a personal call, because we stopped using that number a few years back. But every so often it's someone calling looking for homeschool information because back when we started the support group I put my phone number out as a contact. I've since been able to remove it from allllllmost everywhere it was posted. A few sites are no longer operational, but still show up in a search, and a few others are archived.

Putting your home phone number on the internet is really not a good thing unless you want to get calls until the end of time. Whenever the subject of "sexting" comes up, I think of how I can't get my number off the interwebs, and I'm glad it's a pretty tolerable thing to have out there, and not nudie photos of someone I care about!