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Man! I sure would like to have me one of them thar iPhone 4 gadgets. I'm seeing people with them all around me, and they are all terribly impressed with the results they're getting. To me the most impressive feature of them is the GPS, and I don't even need an iPhone for that.
The way the people around me are using them is to stay more in touch with their own world from anywhere in the world. I've taught myself to ask, "Where are you?" right away in order to imagine I'm there with them. One friend calls me while he is going to and from the Old Time Music Festivals he makes a big deal out of. I think he likes to let me know that technically, I'm behind the curve with gadgets.
If that's what he actually thinks he's doing by calling me while he's on the road he's doing it right. He gets his point across that I'm not hip enough to jump ship with my dial-up mentality just by making much ado about nothing while he's clattering along in his old Toyota truck a hundred miles from home.
I'm not anxious to buy any smartphone presently. I might if I had a windfall. I can't even say I'm waiting for a better deal, because there are already better deals with Google's Droid phones. They're playing catchup, but the price is more reasonable.
The iTunes feature of the iPhone don't hold no truck with me. I'm burned out on recorded music. Truth be, I don't actually go out of my way to hear live music. My friends come over and play one or the other of the instruments I have laying around the house, and I enjoy that a lot.
I hardly ever join in and play with them anymore. I've constrained myself to playing the digital piano, and I'm too inept at that to fiddle around. I'm not playing the scales every day like I once did. I tell myself that all I wanted to do in that endeavor was to prove to myself I COULD learn to play the major and minor chords following the Circle of Fifths.
The idea behind me teaching myself to play those scales from the tutorial materials on the internet was that if I was able to learn how to do it with the right fingering, and practiced playing them every day for a long enough time, I would intuit the particulars of where I wanted to go next with it.
That might have just happened if I weren't so distracted by my health problems. I got a bad attitude due to something I did intuit the other day. I've written about it before. The images were about how I have become certain that my bone problems have been around since I got this particular body. The spirit I traded for it with must have know I was buying into a lemon, but he might have been in for a surprise about his end of the bargain when the dealing was done too.
The Channel Five weather site has a time-released version of what the satellite images report that shows 8 hour snapshots of what the weather looks like from outer space. They have radio buttons for regional and national satellite images on the same page. I've checked in to look for any progress in the cool front predicted to engulf us by sometime tonight two or three times this afternoon.
It's been really, really hot around here. Blessed relief is coming for about four days. Yahoo!! High temperatures in the mid-eighties (29,444 Celsius) and much lower humidity. It's too risky to exercise even a little when the high temperatures get over a 100° F (37.778 C) and the humidity is 90% +. I'm looking forward to taking some longer walks to get the kinks out.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
