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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the book that most people want to pass on to their children, according to a survey by a British university.
The story of the redemption of humbug Ebenezer Scrooge was chosen by one in five people in the University of Worcester survey. Second was the Harry Potter series, with The Lord of the Rings in third. What would you choose?
It's not surprising that a morality tale should top the list. If I could pick just one novel to pass on to my children, I'd want it to be something memorable that might help them to be a better person, or build their emotional resilience, or better understand the world (without boring them silly). If I could pick 20 books, I'd end up with more of a variety.
I might pick something Orwellian, I guess. Or a different Dickens - perhaps A Tale of Two Cities. Or anything by Evelyn Waugh, or Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana or the Quiet American, or something powerful, such as Cry the Beloved Country. I love Middlemarch for its commentary on society, but would it appeal to boys?
But if I had to choose just one book it would be Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which came 10th in the British list. It's a deceptively simple page turner about a true hero, a man who risks everything to stand up for justice. That's the person I'd like my children to grow up to be.
(In fact, if I'd had a daughter, I might well have named her Harper. Atticus would have been a challenge for a 21st century Kiwi kid.)
Anne Hannaford, a spokeswoman for the university, said it was interesting that most of the books chosen had strong moral messages entwined in them.
"The books that feature in the top 10 all provide thought-provoking content and characters, so it is clear that parents value these books for providing challenging thoughts which can last a lifetime."
Or do you just go for good clean fun, as many people did in the survey, and give you children the Harry Potter series? Perhaps the most important thing is just to encourage a lifelong love of books?
Interestingly, though, A Christmas Carol wasn't the most-read book of the adults surveyed. That accolade went to Alice in Wonderland, though the Lewis Carroll classic only made fifth on the list of books to pass down.
More than a third of the adults surveyed had read CS Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Kenneth Greene's The Wind in The Willows and Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The latter, though, didn't make the top ten list of books they'd most want their children to read.
The survey also revealed that one in five 18 to 24-year-olds would pretend to have read a book to impress someone. And almost a third of all those surveyed admitted they choose books by their covers.
"Time is so precious nowadays that many people don't have the luxury to read as much as they used to, therefore making the right decision on what to read is more important than ever," said Hannaford.
The 10 books parents want their children to read
1. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
2. The Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
3. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
4. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
5. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
7. Animal Farm, George Orwell
8. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
9. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
If you could chose just one book to give to your children, what would it be?

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Two's company for a growing number of Canadian couples, with the latest census data showing an ever-widening gap between households with children and households without them. The latter outnumbered the former for the first time in 2006, and the latest numbers reveal that trend has only magnified in the years since.
Though our aging population explains part of the phenomenon, with many baby boomers' kids having reached adulthood and left home, analysts say the big picture is more diverse. Overall, Canadian families are getting smaller, fertility rates are declining, and many couples are either delaying starting families or snubbing the reproductive imperative altogether.
"The fact is, marriages and common-law (partnerships) are very unstable and very likely to separate," says Evelyne Lapierre-Adamcyk, professor emeritus of demography at the University of Montreal. "That has an influence on the decision to have children or not."
In 2001, 30.5 per cent of households comprised couples with children aged 24 and under, compared to 28 per cent for those without children. In 2006, couples with children dropped to 28.5 per cent, while those without children surpassed them at 29 per cent.
The 2011 census reveals that the divide continues to widen, with households comprised of couples with kids falling to 26.5 per cent, versus 29.5 per cent for those without children.
Among the latter cohort are Heather and Wayne Maisonneuve, a married couple from Edmonton. Although Heather, 48, admits some regret in having nobody to carry on their legacy when they die, Wayne says that the benefits of not having children outweigh any drawbacks.
"A long time ago, people were hung up on it. But from a societal standpoint, it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore," says Wayne, 53. "We have more time, more money. What more could you ask for?"
Between 2006 and 2011, Census households consisting of couples without children climbed by 9.3 per cent; couple households with children, meanwhile, declined during that same period by 0.5 per cent.
Statistics Canada reports that the Atlantic provinces, characterized by an older population, saw the largest decreases in couples with children, while younger provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan proved somewhat immune.
Overall, at the sub-provincial level, about four out of every five census divisions saw a marked decline in the number of couple households with kids. Notably, there are now more one-person households in Canada than couple households with kids: 3,673,305 versus 3,524,915.
Monica Zeniuk, a member of the Edmonton social club Babes without Babes, says she's found people very accepting of the child-free choice she and her husband made – and often, she senses, even a little envious of it.
"The benefits of not having children are in the driveway, in our closet and stamped on our passports," says Zeniuk, who's been married 18 years. "Kids are expensive. And the marriage mortality rate is huge without the added pressure of financing a child throughout its life."
The 47-year-old is without regret for the path she and her husband have chosen, never once considering anything to be missing from their domestic unit.
"A family consists of those who surround you with love; it has nothing to do with gender, age, status, two legs or four," says Zeniuk. "Simply put, a family is your choice."


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Last winter, the dh decided one of us had to "join the 21st century." He didn't want to be the one, so he gave me an iPad for Christmas. This was an odd gift, by the way, from a man who views any new form of technology with suspicion and once phoned me at work to ask how he could make his document's pages have numbers.
I was initially not sure what I would use it for. I have a laptop. I have a cellphone. I need this because . . . ?
However, the iPad has grown on me. I can now read ebooks, something that was not previously possible because our Macs run the old Apple hardware (PowerPC chips instead of Intel) and so cannot be updated to run Amazon's Kindle app for Mac. I like carrying a bunch of books around with me in very little space. I've bought new books to read and old favorites for when I'm away from home and just want to read a book I know I like, sort of like talking to an old friend.
I had surgery (nothing for anyone to be concerned about) in the Spring and spent a good bit of time lying down in the next few weeks. Checking email on something I could hold up in front of my face, like a book, was extremely convenient. So was surfing the web. The iPad proved to be very convenient for these purposes as well as for reading. I suspect it will also be a nice alternative to hunting for radio stations when I'm on a long trip. I can just set the iPod function to "shuffle," turn the volume up, and have music I like, without the bother of headphones or hunting around every hundred or so miles.
It has not been an unmixed blessing, though. Contrary to what the people at the store told the dh, it was not "plug and play" because the system file on my Mac was not sufficiently updated. The iPad would not condescend to recognize OS X 10.4.9 The only computer the iPad would talk to was the boy's, and he was not crazy about having my music selections (let alone the books) on his hard drive. Now the boy's computer is dying. It needs replacement capacitors, whatever those are.
So I'm trying to get the laptop updated to the minimum level the iPad will tolerate, which is about as far as the laptop can be updated because the newer system versions require the Intel chip (I also cannot open .docx files with my older version of Word and cannot load the newer version because of the same hardware issues). I was just lucky the Apple online store still had that version of OS X in stock. However, it's possible this version of OS X may not like Word 2004 for Mac. Which happens to be the format for my mss. All of them.
Speaking of mss., typing is also a challenge due to the iPad's compressed keyboard, which is highly sensitive and requires switching among three different keyboards to reach all available keys. But I've adjusted well enough that I can now jot story notes and email them to myself.
Though I have yet to figure out how to make it acknowledge a document downloaded to it. I tried with a book ms., and it sort of went "poof" and vanished. Mail gave me the option to open it in ebooks during the couple of seconds it was purportedly downloading, but why would I want to do that? It's a document. It's not, you know, a book. Yet.
Apple used to be consistently backwards compatible, but that no longer seems to be the case. And I find myself feeling left behind.
And now, of course, there is the iPad2, which some banditas have and love. I have the plain old original model that you have to turn on and off manually instead of just opening or closing the cover, and I do not plan to upgrade it anytime soon. I'm just getting used to this one. Why would I want to start over again?
As some of you know, I worked in my college's radio station and even earned a 3rd Class Radio Operator license (which I think is no longer given). I knew the basics of setting up equipment to record and play back. I can set up DVDs, game systems, and such. Yet the more complex computers get, the more confusing I find them.
My cell phone is just a phone. No camera. No WYSIWYG keyboard because I'd rather talk than text most of the time. I'd like the phone to play the Stargate theme as a ringtone, but I have no idea how to make it do that. When I have time, I'm going to take it to the store and make the clever people there deal with this issue.
Also, it fits my hand comfortably. "Smart" phones, like the iPhone, generally are too wide for me. And my phone has a flip top, sort of like a Star Trek communicator, which automatically makes it preferable to all phones without this feature.
And it works just fine, despite being dropped on the tile floor of a Burger King somewhere in western Virginia, an impact that caused the back to come off. I put the back on again, and the phone worked. Okay, so the green light doesn't consistently stay lit when the phone is turned on, but the phone does everything I need it to.
I'm still ahead of the dh, who calls his cell phone "an accessory for my glove compartment" and resists all of the boy's efforts to teach him how to charge it, but I'm light years behind the boy, who texts, plays online games, surfs the web, and listens to music all at the same time (though not all on his phone, mostly on his computer).
A friend once gave us a very nice food processor for Christmas, thinking the dh, who loves to cook, would find it handy. He found it intimidating, with all its many functions and blades. Since it had to do with cooking, I wasn't especially vulnerable to its lure, either. We finally (discreetly) gave it away, to someone who couldn't wait to start, slicing, dicing, pureeing and whatever else it would do.
I used to sew. My machine would sew forward or backward. With a special attachment, it would make a buttonhole. That's all it did. That was enough.
Some people's machines will zig-zag, bind edges, hem, monogram, and perform assorted other functions. You couldn't pay me to touch one. I might end up with a zig-zagged, monogrammed buttonhole in a hem or some such.
I like technology, in general. I'm grateful for electric lights and running water and air conditioning and waffle irons and washing machines and vacuum cleaners and movie projectors and telephones and automobiles and airplanes (and electric mixers on those rare occasions when I bake) and many other forms of technology.
But technology that needs, but refuses, to talk to other technology makes me think we're coming to the age when machines can be the boss of us. Like in Terminator.
Where's Michael Biehn when you need him?
So how do you feel about technology? Love it? Hate it? Fall somewhere in between? What's the last gadget you tried to use and either loved or loathed? Do you know anyone who's as reluctant to use a cellphone as my dh? Have you ever had your computer refuse to talk to your printer?
I brought home a package of books from RWA, and it's going to one of today's commenters (prize post will go up Sunday, July 31).
104 comments:
- Kim in Baltimore said...
- July 26, 2011 at 12:13 AM
- Kim in Baltimore said...
I am an unabashed dinosaur. No cell phone. No ereader. But living on an island (and attending book conventions) supports this lifestyle!
The GR and I will enjoy an electronic free day in Paradise!
- July 26, 2011 at 12:16 AM
- gamistress66 said...
I work at a tech company doing the accounting. I always tell them, no one can screw up a computer better than an accountant -- more than once some one in my dept (including me) has managed to stump the IT folks when our machines have crashed. Alas, they always manage to fix them in the end so that we have to get back to work ;)
- July 26, 2011 at 12:19 AM
- Lolarific said...
I'm somewhere in the middle of tech savy and dinosaur. I love playing with my computer but don't have a clue on how to work on anything inside of it, or write code, or fix that whole printer problem you speak of. I just recently upgraded to a droid powered phone and it took me awhile to get use to it, but i've played with other phones that it would drive me batty to own myself.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:24 AM
- Mary Preston said...
Where IS Michael Biehn?
I'm not techno savvy at all. I talk to my appliances at home all the time: telling the microwave or washing machine to hurry up or the telephone to be quiet. As for the computer, we have come to an understanding. It behaves & don't yell.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- Minna said...
I love technology and I hate technology. I love it when it works, but when it doesn't...
And yes, I know someone who is as reluctant to use a cellphone as your dh. My mom!
- July 26, 2011 at 1:40 AM
- donnas said...
I love new things and would love to get an IPad but I know its going to be awhile. The last tech thing I got was my IPhone and Im completely hooked.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:00 AM
- Donna MacMeans said...
Aloha to Kim! Glad to see you've returned home safely - and lured the GR to join you as well! Glad to have you back in the lair.
Nancy - I think I must be somewhere in-between, but I must admit I was kicking and resisting to be that far. No Ipad yet, though I'm sort of thinking it might be a nice addition - just to stay current, you know (grin). The dh has an "old" one and he uses it all the time.
This Macbook Pro is my newest tech gadget - and it was a Christmas gift. I was hesitent to change over to it from a PC - but now that I have I love it. I highly recommend it.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:01 AM
- Dtchycat said...
I am completely technology incompetant. I can use a computer - enough to get by, and I can use a cellphone to call someone in an emergency - and the only technological device that I cannot live without (well, I could, but I really rather not) is my ereader, and that is only because it weighs less than a pound and holds hundreds of books at a time and saves my back from carting along a bag full of books wherever I go because I cannot be without a book in my hands.
It stinks, because everyone I work with (pretty much everyone from the technological generation) can do all these things with their iphones, etc. and there I am asking them how to reboot my computer...
- July 26, 2011 at 2:08 AM
- Maureen said...
Eh. I love technology to a certain extent, but then just plain old get tired of feeling like I need some sort of social network degree to take a photograph. Because it's all linked together for 'convenience'! HA!
Last thing I tried new was a digital camera...could not figure it out so I pried the dog chewed cover off the old digital camera, did some filing of rough edges and decided it worked good enough.
And it does.
Newer is not always better!
- July 26, 2011 at 2:24 AM
- Tawny said...
Oh, baby, I adore technology :-D Love it love it love it :-)
I have an iPad2. I have an iPhone. I did just lose my laptop (sob) to my daughter because hers blew up and she has to have one for schoolwork (our homeschool curriculum is computer based)
I am using this laptop free time as an experiment. First of all, to see if I can stay sane. But secondly to see if I can utilize my iPad more. I do have an iPad keyboard that is a lot easier to use than the touchpad itself. I'm also a major fan of Evernote (free app) for taking notes, syncing those, my docs and WIP between iPad, iPhone, computer, etc.
btw... I use my sewing machine for adding decorative stitches to my scrapbook pages LOL.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:33 AM
- Jane said...
I'm not the most up to date person when it comes to technology. I do like gadgets and if I had unlimited funds I would buy them all. I do have my eye on the iPad 2 and I've heard many great things about it.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM
- Deanna said...
I love technology ... kind of. I have an iPhone (though not the latest version) and also a desktop PC.
Recently the boy decided that he wanted an iPad2 and that we should get one each. I'm hemmed and hawed over it because I did not know what I would do with it. Anyhow, it got released, we bought one each and now I had this iThing that I had to figure out what to do with. I already have my iPhone to do phone things and some other stuff, I had my PC to do all PC related stuff and I had my Kindle to read on.
I had a hard time figuring out what to do with the iPad. Fortunately, not long after we got the iPads, we went away to our holiday home where there was no phone and no internet. The iPad came in handy for checking email and surfing the internet. It was especially handy for lying in bed and doing those things.
After the two weeks with the iPad, I came home with a new appreciation for the device. I don't use it when I'm up and about, I do stuff on my PC, just 'cos I like the interface (full sized keyboard and all) but I do like checking email, facebook and reading news and blogs with the iPad.
So now the iPad goes to bed with me and if I wake up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep (which happens often) I click on the iPad (no lag time to power on) and happily entertain myself until I'm tired enough to go back to sleep. I don't even need to turn on the light, hence not disturbing the boy, who's fast asleep. :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 4:41 AM
Hi Nancy!
I have an old tabletop Singer. It has embroidery options, but I always wanted the drop platform thingy to sew sleeves and a serge option. We have two wireless printers and it was a nightmare to install the laser printer. The instructions are so helpful. I have all the cool kitchen electrics, but tonight, I dragged out the hand mixer I've had for thirty years and made fruit tortes.
Congrats on your iPad! I'm thinking about getting one. Still trying to figure out what this "android" stuff is all about.
:) Pink
- July 26, 2011 at 4:55 AM
- Helen said...
Well done Kim have fun with him
I loved this post LOL I am a bit slow with technology I am lucky I have my kids to help me with things. I recently bougt a smart phone (samsung glaxy 1) and am enjoying it although I can acsess emails on it I rarely do I use it more for facebook and playing words with friends LOL. I know there are lots more I can do with it but just don't feel the need although i do play angry birds here and there. I do have an
e reader and I am enjoying that but other than the PC at home I don't have anything else.
Have Fun
- July 26, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- hrdwrkdmom aka Dianna said...
I like technology for the most part. My phone does a lot more than I use it for but I am a pretty simple person. It has a calculator that comes in handy occasionally. I can't take pics of things in a store and send to my daughter and say is this what my granddaughter wants for her birthday? That is kind of handy too. I have a Kindle and I am loving the whole 3,500 books right in my hand thing.
- July 26, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- Unknown said...
have a good technology free day Kim
I like some technology... I have a basic mobile phone that has a camera and my grandaughter set the ring tone to Dancing Queen by ABBA I have the desktop and laptop to keep in touch with all my friends but my favourite is my top of the line Janome embroidery sewing machine and that talks to the computer..... it does everything except make a cup of tea LOL.... my avatar is a photo of an embroidery design I did
- July 26, 2011 at 6:13 AM
- Laurie G said...
I'm still living in the dark ages. I have an old computer with dial up.
I use my original cell phone. I have a microwave. I have a digital camera which I never use.
Shocking how illiterate I am tech wise!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:28 AM
- Deb Marlowe said...
My objection to technology is I don't like paying so much to duplicate it.
It's getting harder to own a cell phone without a data plan, but I already have a laptop to check email, etc. and there is wifi in so many places now, why should I pay to have it in my pocket?
I know it's convenient, but it's not essential. Plus, I really get annoyed when I'm out with someone, having a conversation over lunch or dinner and they begin to tweet or check email.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- runner10 said...
I want an ipad2 really bad. I am very intimidated by it. I am afraid I will not be able to figure it out. I don't want to feel like a dumby.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- Nancy said...
Kim, congrats on the GR! Better keep an eye on your chocolate supply!
You and the dh would get along famously. For me, the cell phone and the e-reader have been particularly convenient, compatibility issues aside. But I would never call them necessities. I still like reading an actual, tangible book, and when I'm home, my cell phone is in my purse and turned off.
As some people may remember from my blog about post-apocalyptic settings, the one that weirded people out, I do like stories like that, and they make me acutely aware that if the power grid ever goes, everything on the iPad or the computer is a few hours away from totally useless. Whereas my paper books would not be.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- Nancy said...
Gamistress, I sympathize. I felt this way when I worked for the government and had to use an MS/DOS machine, pre-windows. I missed my mouse and my graphic interface on the Mac. I never stumped IT but I had a phase where we were in frequent communication!
- July 26, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Nancy said...
Lolarific, I noticed I left my computer off the list of tech I love, and I do love it, as I'm coming to love the iPad. However, I have no more understanding than you do of what's inside it. I like Macs because I don't need to know or care about various commands and my mouse has only ONE button I have to deal with.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Nancy said...
Maybelle, I also talk to appliances. My computer and I have the same deal about it working and me not yelling.
I don't know where Michael Biehn is, alas, and he's not on the list for DragonCon this yeaer.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Nancy said...
Minna, I'm with you on the loving tech when it works. As the saying goes, "Technology is great. Except when it isn't."
- July 26, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Nancy said...
Donnas, a friend of mine has an iPhone and loves it. I used to covet one for websurfing despite my preference for a smaller phone in general. The iPad was partly a surprise to me for budget reasons, I have to admit. It fell far outside our usual gift range.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Nancy said...
Donna, I would love a Macbook. You've seen my laptop, the one I'm going to take the plunge and try to update so it will talk to the iPad. The Macbook will do far more. For that matter, so would a new desktop iMac.
However, the boy's dying computer had to be replaced so he can run the new software programs at the university.
I bet that Macbook boots faster than your PC.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Nancy said...
Dtchycat, I love the e-reader function, too. I sympathize with your feelings. Many people tend to call my cell phone rather than the land line, assuming that I'm always near the cell, and I feel sort of out of step when that happens.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Nancy said...
Maureen wrote: Newer is not always better.
Amen to that! I wish the Facebook people could grasp that. Everytime I start feeling comfortable, they go and change something. I don't WANT "new" messaging, and I'm sick of getting the message urging me to use it every time I log on.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Nancy said...
Tawny, I know you love technology. You're one of the people I depend on to explain it to me!
I prefer my desktop machine to the laptop (which we bought used), but the laptop is convenient. A friend was going to show me her keyboard for iPad in NYC, but we never got around to it. Is it cumbersome to tote around?
- July 26, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Antonia said...
I love technology, but not every tech object that is released. I love laptops and e-readers because I can figure out how everything works pretty fast, but I can't stand fancy cell phones. Give me a phone with an actual keyboard and I'm happy. The menu for all these recent phones seems really complicated and annoying. I'm not a big fan of touch screens when it comes to phones.
Also, I believe that you should buy things that you actually need, and since I need my phone only for calls and text messages, I don't see why I should invest in something that I don't particularly need and can't manage.
So, if I find an object to be useful, then I'll try and get it for myself. :D
- July 26, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- Nancy said...
Jane, I like playing with gadgets. Like you, I'd have more if we had the budget for them. But I do hate when they become inter-dependent but then won't communicate like the iPad and my computer or, as some of my PC-using friends have experienced, the computer and printer.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- Nancy said...
Daz, I think I could read in bed with the iPad and not bother the dh. It's handy for travel, as you say. I'm away from home now and using it to comment. But I wrote the blog on the computer before I left. I'm with Tawny in not loving the touchpad.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Nancy said...
Hi, Jennifer--
My old sewing machine was a Singer. The last thing I made was a Halloween costume for the boy, quite some years ago. if you want a serger, you make things way more complicated than I ever did.
As for the printer--remember when an actual manual came with things? When you didn't have to print it off yourself if you wanted hard copy? Because soft copy is SO useful when it's on the desktop of the machine you're trying to work on. NOT! *sigh*
- July 26, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Nancy said...
Helen, glad you liked the post. I depend on the boy to help me figure things out. I don't know what I'll do when he leaves for school.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Nancy said...
Hi, Dianna. I love the e-reader function, as I said. A calculator would be nice, but the iPad doesn't come with that. Or if it does, I haven't figured it out yet. There's probably an app for it.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Nancy said...
Barb, your sewing machine talks to your computer? Wow. That's both impressive and a little scary. Sounds as though you make some beautiful things, though.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Nancy said...
Laurie G, I have a digital camera, and it's great for some things, but I had a better zoom on my film camera with its 35-79mm zoom lens, which is its only lens. I pulled that camera out for the boy's graduation. My only complaint with it is that it's sometimes hard to tell whether the film is loaded properly at first, which means I waste shots.
As Maureen said, newer is not always better.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Nancy said...
Deb, I don't have a data plan on my phone. The company keeps sending me annoying texts urging me to get a new phone, and I keep ignoring them. I don't need that!
I would be seriously put out if someone started tweeting or checking email during a meal.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Nancy said...
Runner 10, the iPad was not that difficult to figure out. Just be sure, via the specs on the Apple website, it's compatible with your computer before you get one. And download the user manual asap so you know how to set the blasted thing up. I don't think you'd feel dumb.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Nancy said...
Antonia, your approach sounds very practical. I do love reading on the iPad, but typing is not easy. If I decide to use it much for that, I'm probably going to have to invest in a keyboard because I make a lot of mistakes on the touchpad, though I've gotten better. And I don't appreciate having to look at it that way.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- Hellie Sinclair said...
Mostly not a fan. This February, I did update my phone (which looked remarkably like the one you had a picture of) for one that could take pictures and text. I also had to update my plan to allow for texts. I've actually enjoyed it. I don't really like talking on the phone and would prefer texting most of the time.
I won a Sony eReader, which I love because it's free, but I'm still 99% an old school rather-hold-an-actual-book person. I still buy regular books, et al. I mostly use the eReader to download books from the library. Or free books.
I do not have an iPad.
I did recently update my VHS/DVD player for a straight up DVD player. Not blue ray. It nearly undid me. It came with 3 prong cables. I barely got it connected; then it wouldn't work. However, before I boxed it back up and decided I would never watch movies again, I called a friend. He came over and pressed a button on the TV!--the TV!--that was not in the directions and it all worked.
Technology is not for me.
I do not have a iPod. Though I'd like one to download books. I love audio books and am trying to convince myself that if I got an iPod, I'd exercise more.
- July 26, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Nancy said...
Ms. Hellion, the photo also looks remarkably like my phone. I wouldn't mind having a camera, but I don't want one badly enough to learn a new phone.
We also have not gone Blu-Ray and are resisitng it. We need a DVD player that will play both standard and BR discs before we'll make that leap.
Or else the standard ones will just become unavailable and force us into it. *sigh*
- July 26, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Deb said...
I feel lost without my cell phone; I even use the alarm on it in the a.m. I love the computer and am on it w-a-a-ay too much. Technology fascinates me, but I'm fine without an ipod or ipad or e-reader. Shary has an XBox/Kinect and, let me tell you, that thing is fascinating when she plays the games. It blows me away how it places you in the game and you kick an animated ball, etc.
One tech source I am worried about is the interactive whiteboard. We teacher have been told we WILL use it next year and will be evaluated using it. GULP. I don't have a clue about it or what to do with it....
- July 26, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Lois said...
I share something with you there -- I love my technology and gadgets, but my cell phone (which is for emergencies only), I want to only be able to actually talk to someone on. It is not a smartphone, and was the most basic one there. I got the upgrade last year, and now I have a camera on it, but I never use the voice mail or texting. Did try the camera on my cat. But the thing that makes it worth it, yep, it's another one just like the Star Trek communicator. :D
- July 26, 2011 at 10:44 AM
- Maureen said...
My husband is not a big fan of cell phones either so her rarely keeps it on. This caused us trouble yesterday when he lost it but we couldn't call it to find it. Every new gadget is something that has to be learned so I am not very quick to get things but the idea of an ereader is appealing since it can store so many books.
- July 26, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- EilisFlynn said...
Nancy, you've made me feel better about my general lack of enthusiasm for technology. I too have an iPad(2), it was a surprise for my birthday, and it wasn't until I saw someone using one at the conference in New York that I realized that it could do more than I'd been giving it credit for. The author told me he rarely uses his desktop machine anymore, since the iPad can do pretty much anything the bigger machine can! I picked up a wireless keyboard and it works beautifully with the iPad (the keyboard can also be used with my desktop without much fuss, although it seems to slow down my Internet connectivity there).
On the other hand, my phone's as old as yours. It still works. Why fuss with it? My car was bought new in 1986. It still works. Why fuss? But the update, when it comes, will be a shock, I know. And that's what we have to brace ourselves for.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- catslady said...
I love it and hate it. It takes me a while to catch up to things lol. The problem is once you start with something new you then can't live without it. It's a good thing I didn't have a computer while raising my kids because it is such a distraction! And the times when it decides to not work or I have to talk with technicians, puts my blood pressure into overdrive. It seems lately there have been a lot of virus attacts. So far they all have been "caught" but my screen got changed and I don't know how to change it back lol.
- July 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- Loucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindy said...
LOL! Great post, Nancy! Esp. that piccie of the Terminator. ;-)
I'm like Kim and your DH -- NO CELL PHONE! I REFUSE! I am sick & tired of seeing and hearing (in the public toilet no less!) rude people on their cell phones. I think everyone caught driving and using a phone, or worse TEXTING, should get an automatic jail sentence and NO PHONE for 6 months! But then, I think people who flip cigarette butts out their car window should have to EAT every cigarette for the next 2 miles of highway, so I COULD be a wee bit harsh. :-P
Nancy, I LOVE that your phone flips open like a Star Trek communicator.
Last new piece of technology I bought was a digital camera. Had to because my old camera was stolen. BTW, still don't know how to download the photos, I make my son do it.
Last thing before that was my laptop 2 1/2 years ago, and to be honest, I still write on my desk top most of the time.
AC the Luddite and PROUD
- July 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Jenn3128 said...
My step into technology was to treat myself to the ipod touch. It plays music and I know how to take videos, but can't figure out how to download videos to share.
"I might end up with a zig-zagged, monogrammed buttonhole in a hem or some such".
Hands down funniest line I've read today!
- July 26, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Anna Sugden said...
LOL I think your DH and mine are as unwilling as each other to use a cell-phone!
I must admit to loving technology - whether it's my iPad 2 or my computer or a digital camera or the DVR. I LOVE apps *g*.
I don't know that I'm hugely tech-savvy. I can do enough to make them work, but not enough to fix them when they go wrong.
Not too fussed about cell phones.
Love kitchen technology stuff like ice-cream and bread-makers *g*
- July 26, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Trish Milburn said...
Nancy, I had to laugh at your husband's comment about his phone. Very similar to my hubby's view of cell phones -- it's there in case you break down on the side of the interstate. It's useless for me to try to call him on his cell unless we plan in advance for him to have it actually turned on.
I admit to liking a lot of the newer tech gadgets, though we're not super early adopters. I finally got a phone with a full keyboard so I could actually text people. When I took in my old StarTac phone to Verizon to get a new one, the guys were like, "Whoa, we haven't seen one of these in forever." :)
I do love my iPod, my little netbook, and my FitBit pedometer.
- July 26, 2011 at 2:35 PM
- traveler said...
I am old school. Like it that way. But the computer is a must.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:24 PM
- petite said...
I have a cell phone and that is for emergencies. My computer is great. Otherwise I do like technology which is such a convenience.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM
- Maria D. said...
I'm not sure what I am...lol..I love new technology but it changes so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up and I'll be honest and admit that sometimes I don't really see a need for some of it - that being said ...I do love my cell phone, my Kindle and my Nook...plus my laptop..during a storm I have a case where I put everything in and take it to the basement for saftey...lol...they are like my babies (don't have kids). Thanks for the giveaway!
- July 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- Nancy said...
Deb, I love my computer, too. I don't think my phone has an alarm. The boy's does, but his is fancier.
He loves the Xbox 360 but does not own one, nor is he likely to anytime soon.
I still play with our old N64. Tetris is a great tool for letting my subconscious work out a problem. And I can blow uo stuff on Space Invaders. :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM
- Margay Leah Justice said...
I love technology! Every time I see a new gadget come out, I want it. Right now, I really want an iPad.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- Nancy said...
Lois, I wish my phone flipped open with that wrist motion like on Star Trek, but I have to manually open it.
I love your space shuttle picture. I have a chipped and faded space shuttle mug I got on a visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville many years ago. I've had it longer than I've had the dh.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- Jeanne (AKA The Duchesse) said...
Hey Nancy! Loved the post! Had to LOL at several things.
I envy the iPad, love my phone, can make buttonholes with my very antique Singer sewing machine, but not zig-zag, and wish someone else could make my iPod sych up better. grins.
I love it in some ways, and also love taking a vacation from it.
Kim, enjoy a great day in HI with that bird...please don't teach him how to hula...
- July 26, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- Nancy said...
Maureen, the two things I do most on the iPad are email and reading. As you say, having a lot of books in a little space is very handy!
I hope you found your dh's phone.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- Nancy said...
Hi, Eilis--My favorite kind of car is "paid for." The car before this one lasted 13 years. I'm hoping the current one (from 2002) will last at least that long.
The iPad will do a lot, but I think I'd need a real keyboard to do any serious writing on it.
- July 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Anna Campbell said...
Nancy, I had to giggle - I've not long ago posted a paean of praise to my digital camera on Facebook and then the mongrel thing has decided it's not going to download any more photos onto my computer. GRRRRR! Going to reload the software today and hope that works. Actually I think your DH and I would probably vie for person who hates their mobile phone the most! But the digital camera, that was wonderful - until it broke down!
- July 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Nancy said...
Catslady, it really is easy to become dependent on gadgets. The more convenient they are, the faster that seems to happen.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:00 PM
- Beth Andrews said...
Overall I'm sort of meh about all the new fun gadgets. I have a data package for my new phone but rarely use it (although I'm trying to change that). I do love the camera on my phone, though *g* It takes better pictures than my digital camera!
And my husband doesn't even have a cellphone, Nancy, and he doesn't want one. Ever. Which is fine with me since we have enough phones on our cellphone plan :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 4:01 PM
- Laney4 said...
HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT TECHNOLOGY? Behind. Always behind the eight ball. Nothing newer than a desktop (so no laptop, Netbook, etc.) ... nothing newer than a cell phone (so no BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, etc., but I AM now texting) ... still use a VCR (own and use 3 at once, as most shows are on at the same time when I play badminton during the week - so no PVR or DVR or TIVO) ... just bought a new vacuum that's similar to last one, as I refuse to pay for bells and whistles that I won't use ... same goes for new washing machine....
LOVE IT, HATE IT, IN BETWEEN? In between. Love it when it works; hate it when it doesn't.
LAST GADGET? New cell phone; love it. Last year my daughter bought me a new camera; not enthralled with it. Probably should read the directions (ahem)....
OTHERS RELUCTANT TO USE CELL? Yes, I have a few friends who refuse to "get with it".
COMPUTER REFUSING TO TALK WITH PRINTER? Yup. Luckily, I have a son who will soon fix it up so they speak the same language. (I don't speak that language....)
- July 26, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Nancy said...
Cindy, glad you like the photo. I thought of putting up the Michael Biehn one instead, but the more threatening Terminator seemed to fit better.
I'm sorry your camera was stolen. The new Mac laptops upload from the memory card directly, but you can get a card reader for about $10-15 that uploads via a USB port.
Or make your son do it. :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Nancy said...
Jenn, glad you liked the line about the sewing machine. If you use Google, it may lead you to a site, like maybe the support forums at apple.com, that'll help with the download issue. Or not. But that's all I know to suggest. Good luck!
- July 26, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- Nancy said...
Taking a break here from our regular topic to congratulate the banditas whose upcoming releases got 4.5s from RT:
Donna, Kate, and Jeanne (who also got a Top Pick).
Way to go!
- July 26, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- Nancy said...
Anna, I enjoy apps, too. The Weather Channel is handy in the road, and I enjoy mah jongg.
I've never used a bread maker, but I think I could probably deal with that.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- Nancy said...
Trish, highway breakdowns are the only reason the dh carries a phone. He has one only because his work discount is the cheapest way for the boy and me to have phones. But he also refuses to keep it turned on.
He knows how to place a call but, alas, not how to receive one. And he has no desire to learn.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Nancy said...
Traveler, I have to admit the idea of typing a ms. on a typewriter again gives me hives. The computer is my favorite gadget.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- Nancy said...
Petite, I do enjoy the convenience, as you say. Especially the computer. I'd hate to go back to a typewriter, though I still use my alphasmart on occasion.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:25 PM
- Nancy said...
Maria, it's smart to have a case you can out everything in. Do you get a lot of storms that send you under cover?
You have a Nolk and a Kindle? Do you prefer one over the other, or are they pretty much the same to you?
- July 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Nancy said...
Um, that was PUT everything in.
And Nook, not NOLK.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM
- Nancy said...
Margay, I enjoy the iPad now, but I had to work up to it.
I wrote this blog on the computer but am responding on the iPad.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- Nancy said...
Hi, Jeanne--
Surely someone at your house can make your iPod synch properly! I agree that it's sometimes nice to be away from tech for a while.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- Nancy said...
Anna, I hope reinstalling the software makes the camera behave. I like my digital one okay, but I sometimes miss my old 35mm film one and its 35-70mm zoom.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:34 PM
- Nancy said...
Beth, your comment reminded me of a mom I overheard at the boy's school. Of her husband, she said, "He just WILL not have a cell phone!" My dh wouldn't either if not for the family plan saving money on the boy and me.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:37 PM
- Nancy said...
Laney4, I don't speak the machines' language either. And I'm not a big fan of texting. I wish our VCR worked bettere since I do occasionalky miss shows, though not three at once.
- July 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Barbara E. said...
I love technology, but I'm usually a little behind the curve. I wait until all the bugs are worked out and then I make a change. When I was in the market for a new computer, I decided to buy an iMac and I'm really glad I did. I'm going to get an iPhone, but haven't yet, mostly because I have to pay for data usage and my cell phone bill will increase significantly. I still don't have an e-reader, but I do have the Kindle app, so I can read books on my computer, which has a nice big screen.
- July 26, 2011 at 7:01 PM
- Louisa Cornell said...
The GR will LOVE some Island Time! Wish I could join you two!
Nancy! My Luddite Sister!
I know technology is supposed to make out lives easier, but I often wonder if everything is SUPPOSED to be made easier. Some things lose their value when they are easily obtained.
I love my computer, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles on it. And yes, my computer and printer have had their "I'm not speaking to you moments!" Thank God I have my nephew and friends to go to when that happens.
I just got a cell phone five years ago, recently had to replace the original but it still isn't an Iphone.
I guess I just refuse to deal with technology that is smarter than I am!
- July 26, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Tawny said...
A friend was going to show me her keyboard for iPad in NYC, but we never got around to it. Is it cumbersome to tote around?
Actually it fits right over the iPad itself, like a case cover. Its great for tossing it all in my purse, I don't worry about the screen at all, then.
It is a smaller sized keyboard, but its similar to a small laptop sized one, so its not hard to make the adjustment at all. I've found it sits nicely on my lap to replace my laptop when I want to go write in the living room instead of my desk, too :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 8:00 PM
- Christie Kelley said...
Love technology but I haven't decided why I would need an iPad. I have a laptop. I have a smart phone. Why would I needed anything else? I will invest in a Kindle soon. Reading ebooks on my phone gets a little tiresome because the screen is so small.
Funny thing, my nephew bought either a kindle or a nook recently and it came loaded with one of my books. He thought that was really cool (and so did I)!
- July 26, 2011 at 8:41 PM
- Pissenlit said...
I both like and dislike technology...it depends on the technology.
The last gadget I tried out was my friend's iPad2. I was fairly unimpressed with it at first. I read two pages of an ebook before I gave up on it because it gave me a headache and I was just about to hand it back until my friend mentioned that it had Scrabble on it. I told my friend he wasn't getting his iPad back...and he didn't for a good long while. :D
I do believe there were a few times where my computer THOUGHT it was talking to my printer...but wasn't.
- July 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Nancy said...
Barbara, I also like to wait until the bugs are worked out. Since my Mac can't run the Kindle app, the iPad is very handy.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Nancy said...
Louisa, I also fear tech I suspect is smarter than I am. :-)
Yes, I love my computer, and my cell phone, and now the iPad. I can now read ebooks (or iBooks, as may be). And I enjoy the N64 and the old one-piece Gameboy, but the PS2 and Gamecube controllers require too many combos of buttons for me to keep straight.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM
- Nancy said...
Tawny, thanks for the link. I sometimes write in the car, so a keyboard that works for that would be great.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- Nancy said...
Christie, I think it's cool that your nephew's e-reader came with your book. I read One Night Scandal last week and thought it was terrific, a great windup to that series.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:20 PM
- Nancy said...
Pissenlit, I have mah jongg on the iPad. Unlike the version on my laptop, it's timed, which is doubly challenging.
I like the backlit ebooks, but the Kindle ads are correct that the iPad suffers from glare in direct sunlight.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- Leni said...
I'm somewhere in between. I love the ease of using gadgets, but sometimes it can go overboard. I'm behind on the latest gadgets and won't replace anything unless it breaks.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- Nancy said...
Leni, I'm also not planning to replace anything anytime soon, though I may have to get a new computer in the next couple of years.
- July 26, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Pat Cochran said...
I'm definitely not a techno-freak!
I'm always the last to jump into the
latest new thing! And I won't get the
items for myself. Honey got my cell
phone for Christmas a year ago and he
gave me a laptop for "January" this
year. (Or maybe it was an early gift
for our anniversary.) I always feel
as if I haven't enough information on
selecting the proper gadget. I admit
that I too usually have to be dragged
kicking & screaming into a new techno
Pat C.
- July 26, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- Nancy said...
Hi, Pat--
I tend to be slow to jump on the newest thimg, too. But it's nice when a tech gift works out well. I hope your laptop and phone did.
- July 26, 2011 at 10:35 PM
- jo robertson said...
Great topic, Nancy! Sorry I'm late today, very busy.
I have a love-hate relationship with technology. Part of me must be dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century, but the other part is amazed at all the THINGS that can be done!
I learned how to make buttonholes by hand -- very old school LOL!
- July 26, 2011 at 10:53 PM
- Cassondra said...
Great blog Nancy!
I used to be a total techno-phobe. I just didn't want to deal with it. Mostly because, as you mention, it was a nightmare to get printers, scanners, etc, to play nice with one another. Nothing was plug and play. You had to have this driver or that driver, and they wouldn't load, and it wasn't clear which one to choose from any given site, and it was hard to get to them to get them, and if you were offline because of the equipment you were after, getting the driver was just a freaking charlie foxtrot of the highest order. Now much of that has changed, but it's taken me some time to not dread any new tech purchase, and the learning curve involved.
The thing about phones is that I never learn to use all the functions. There are just too many. I'm only just now learning to text--I got a phone with a keyboard. I refuse to try to text using numbers. You know those companies that make their phone number a saying..like 1-800-no pests or something? I boycott those companies, still. If they don't put the actual number out there beside it, so I don't have to hunt around for the dang letters, they will never have my business.
I have one thing to say to those people. If you want my business, don't make it hard for me to call you. Remember the name or not, I won't dial it if it's a pain.
So I am a dinosaur who has been dragged into the tech age only recently, and with a great deal of reluctance.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- Cassondra said...
Kim, Aloha, and congrats on the rooster!
He's no dummy. A day in Hawaii. Yumm.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:05 PM
- Nancy said...
Jo, glad you made it by! I couldn't figure out how to do buttonholes by hand--hence the attachment. :-)
- July 26, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- Nancy said...
Cassondra, I'm still not in love with texting. I can do it--shocked the boy by texting him from Lady Jane's in NYC--but I prefer actual voices in real time on the phone.
Macs generally are good at talking to printers, and vice-versa, and I just hope that's still true if the current printer gives out while I'm hanging onto my not-upgradeable Mac.
- July 26, 2011 at 11:15 PM
- Sheree said...
Although I'm handy with technology (at least as compared to people I know), I still have reservations and refuse to be the first to jump on any tech bandwagon. My phone isn't a smartphone (but it does take pictures and short videos) and I haven't owned a personal music device since the Discman (which still works). I do have a Kindle but that's only because I won it (otherwise I'd wait to see who the last ereader standing is).
On the other hand, I started reading ebooks years ago (on my laptop) and I still remember some DOS commands as well as the good old days during which the internet was the playground of universities and large corporations ONLY. But, no, I did not work on ENIAC, you smart alecky young whippersnapper!
- July 27, 2011 at 12:21 AM
- Fedora said...
I have mixed feelings about technology, Nancy--I'm a slow adopter, while DH tends to be an early one... He drags me along for the ride, sometimes kicking and screaming :)
- July 27, 2011 at 1:39 AM
- Nancy said...
Sheree, your comment about the Kindle and the "last ereader standing" resonated with me. I was going to wait for "one device to rule them all," only the dh preempted me.
I don't have a discman. I bought an mp3 disc player for RWA CDs, but even with the volume tirned down, the earbuds arre too loud for me. I have to figure out somethihg else.
- July 27, 2011 at 8:55 AM
- Nancy said...
Fedora, I'm somewhere between you and your dh. And I sometimes feel as though I'm dragging mine along kicking and screaming. :-)
- July 27, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Fedora said...
LOL! I guess we all have to remember that having a mix of people is what makes the world go 'round :) Early adopters get the buzz going, and the late adopters make sure that the technology continues to improve!
- July 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- LilMissMolly said...
I'm loving my cell phone and being able to read email on it. This is the first time that I paid for web based capabilities on it. Don't really care for looking at web pages because the screens are too small. As far as e-readers, forget it. Tried it and it's just not for me.
- July 27, 2011 at 10:09 PM


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In our Parshat Lech Lecha piece on "Kindness Unlimited" we described the impact of Gemachim upon the community. We here present one of the responses, from Frieda Resnick.
"These Gemachim mean something special to me. One year, erev Pesach, my elderly husband and myself were just getting settled at my daughters home when he realized he had left all his medicine at home. We lived on the other side of the city in Gilo no way to go home and get it. And it was about candle-lighting time. My grandchildren told me about the medicine Gemachim, and two of my granddaughters scoured most of Sanhedria and Sanhedria Murchevet, finding half of his medicine needed for heart, blood pressure and other ailments. One granddaughter returned to the house, and the other kept going to other neighborhoods even after the Pesach seder had begun. She was able to locate all of his medicine, which was really a life-saver. What a wonderful thing that Gemachim exist! And today, at the bris of my great-grandson, I asked my granddaughter where she had gotten the lovely pillow and blanket set that the baby was sleeping on. Guess where from a Gemach! Thank G-d for Gemachim!"
May we suggest that our readers become partners in these wonderful services to the public by investigating which Gemach in Israel they would like to support.


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Harper is the biggest blessing! In all honesty there are no words in this world that could describe to you the love we have for her. She is our miracle baby and is the best thing that has ever happened to us. We are beyond blessed.
With that said I can't believe she is 4.5 months! Where does time go?! Sitting back writing this post as she sleeps makes me want to snuggle her forever. I remember someone telling me to cherish the time with them because they grow so fast. She kept saying they grow as fast as weeds do. I chuckled and never in a million years did I think what she told me a month before we delivered was in fact true. Time does go so fast. She is growing right past our eyes. Shes so beautiful and her personality is everything we could of asked for.
She is hitting milestone after milestone and frankly we as parents are hitting our own milestones as well. After having her I have learned there is no manual or book that could prepare you for the journey of raising a child. Its pretty much a touch and go feeling. Something I wouldn't trade for the world. In fact many of our discussions at the dinner table (if we get to sit down at the table...LOL) are about how our lives were before Harper. To this day I wonder how we even existed. Now don't get me wrong and go on judging....both Sarah and I have an amazing marriage and I consider us rock solid. We love each other to no end. We had a great time before Harper and I cherish those memories but now we feel complete as our little family of three. :)
So here is a little picture post of how we have spent the past 4.5 months of her life! I promise to go more into detail about us, motherhood, breastfeeding and all the wonderful stuff that happens after having a baby!
Friday, January 31, 2014
Our Little Girl
Harper is the biggest blessing! In all honesty there are no words in this world that could describe to you the love we have for her. She is our miracle baby and is the best thing that has ever happened to us. We are beyond blessed.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Finally.....I feel like I have some time to just catch everyone on our lives. It has been quite the ride of our lives! So I plan on writing a blog post a day to catch up everyone on how it has been. Stay tuned!
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Really, no "diss" on Ditko or nothing, but Spider-Man: Fever is what I wanted Ditko's work to be like before I ever really saw Ditko's work. See, back when those shits were sorta hard to find and I had like my Comics Journal issues and maybe one or two dusty-ass collections from my local, suburban library and that's it, the idea of Ditko (or Kirby or Moebius or even, Frank Miller) bubbled-up into something no artist could never live up to.
Same way, say, descriptions by Scorsese and a single still in some crappy International Cinema book turned Bresson's Pickpocket into something "bigger" than the patient, brooding, kinda erotic crime movie it actually is. Point is, Spider-Man: Fever is something else, it's close to the kind of insanity I drummed-up from other people's descriptions of Ditko's work. That's great!
Spider-Man: Fever also helps me cope with a more recent comics-related disappointment: Mike Allred's steady downward trajectory into suckiness. It's something I've discussed with my fellow writers here and we all confessed to, on some dark, bored night, re-opening those first two volumes of Madman to make sure they were still perfect because well, his work's fumbled from confused, high-concept kinda cool stuff to dopey, too high-concept, digitally-colored pop-art garbage.
McCarthy certainly isn't aping Allred here or anything, but he's stumbled upon a lot of the things that made Allred's work really invigorating: A genuine love of comics, un-ironic chintzy humor, some heady stuff here and there, and a confident but wacky art-style that bounces off in twenty different directions at once.
How awkward but real Spider-Man looks sitting on a windowsill checking to see who's on Letterman. That Spidey tells Vulture, a page later, to "Cut that out!" when dude's sticking his grubby birdy mitts in his eye. That the villain of this is named Albion Crowley. That the whole bug world in issue #2 is so gritty and weird you kinda wanna vomit looking at it. It's just really good and really bizarre. But I almost didn't buy the second issue this week because of this one weird tangent in issue #1. I'll remind you real quick...
Spider-Man and Vulture are fighting and they crash through a window. McCarthy's brilliantly cuts-away from it for two pages of Dr. Strange weirdness and when we return, Vulture's all tied-up in a web and mad and shit. And then, out of the corner of the panel, a speech bubble reads "Hey, thass my phone!".
The next panel reveals a black guy (sideways hat, medallion hanging from his neck, baggy jeans and shirt), the owner of this apartment, and he's really worried because Spider-Man called the cops with his phone, and well, black people are all criminals, so the cops coming would be real bad. It's a weird, bad punchline. A page or so later, you get some more of this unfortunate "urban" patois ("You the guy who wrecked my pad!", "You the guy who brung the cops!") and it's just really, really awful.
First, it's just weird. How, in 2010, a clearly smart knowing guy like McCarthy could write such ridiculous coon-ish dialogue is baffling. Second, it's confusing because the guy's dressed like say, a De La Soul or Souls of Mischief fan from the early 90s, not a thug at all. Third, it's a buffoonish black character dropped into the narrative for some incredibly cheap laughs. This kind of stuff happens in comics all the time, like casual sexism, and it's just sort of jarring and weird and worst of all, innocent. McCarthy clearly doesn't think this is a big deal, right? He finds it humorous or maybe somehow, accurate to real life? What the fuck.
Well, it is a big deal. On the humanist tip, I prefer not to see people and peoples degraded like this. But frankly, more important than the "this is racist and it's bad" argument is that it really kinda derails the whole comic book and makes you look at the piece of art and artist behind it quite differently.
With Spider-Man: Fever, McCarthy's not even some insane racist dropping in some quick propaganda, which I can accept that way say, Dave Sim's misogyny or Ditko's Objectivism kinda "works", this is just some dopey white asshole who doesn't even realize he just put some insanely racist shit in his comic book! It's distracting because it's a bummer and it's distracting because it forces you to think about the guy behind the comic, and well, exposes him.
Thankfully, none of this returns in issue two and I guess it's better it was in the first issue and just out of the way than a boner-kill two or three issues in, but really, I just wish it wasn't in there at all.


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Manhattan, Kan. --- Offensive struggles hampered the Tennessee State University women's basketball team in an, 85-53, loss to Big 12 member Kansas State Friday night in Bramlage Coliseum.
Redshirt Junior Chelsea Hudson led the team with 16 points and four steals while freshmen Diamond Beatty and I'mani Davis each added nine points. Davis also recorded a team-high seven rebounds.
TSU (0-1) shot 25.4 percent (16-of-63) from the field while only connecting 4-of-21 from beyond the arc.
After a few early misses and a couple of turnovers, Tennessee State fell behind, 11-0, before the first media timeout.
Brianna Lawrence nailed a triple from the top of the key to get TSU on the board about five minutes into the game. The bucket sparked a 10-5 run that brought the Lady Tigers to within six, 16-10, at the 11:23 mark.
The score was, 27-16, in favor of Kansas State when the Wildcats used a 13-3 run to carry a, 40-19, advantage into the halftime break.
TSU opened the second half by outscoring K-State 11-7 and continued to chip away at the lead. Over a span of three and a half minutes the Lady Tigers put together a 9-2 rally that including six points from Chelsea Hudson and a triple from Brianna Lawrence.
The spurt cut the deficit down to 13 and forced a K-State timeout. TSU, however, went scoreless over the next six minutes and saw the lead balloon back up to, 67-39.
A reverse lay-up by Hudson snapped the scoring drought for TSU with 5:42 left on the clock before K-State closed the half with another rally to make the final score, 85-53.
Tennessee State registered 14 steals, seven assists and three blocks in the contest. TSU lost the battle of the boards, 43-34, and committed 20 turnovers.
The Lady Tigers continue their season-opening road swing with a contest at Kennesaw State on Monday, Nov. 11. Game-time is slated for 7 p.m. eastern in the KSU Convocation Center.


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Eviction Notice – Difference Between Personal Service and Tack and Mail When Evicting a Tenant
As a landlord, sooner or later you will have to evict a tenant for either not paying rent or for violating one or more terms of the lease. When a tenant violates their lease the landlord must immediately start the eviction process. The eviction process is handled by the county where the property is located. Even though you file eviction papers in the county where the property is located, it is state law, not county law, which controls the eviction process.
The eviction process starts with the landlord filing the paperwork for the eviction at the courthouse in the county where the property is located. Once the paperwork for the eviction has been filed, the paperwork will be handed over to either the Sheriff or Marshall's office. Some counties use the Sheriff to serve notice of the eviction filing while others use the Marshall's office. Regardless of the office, they will serve your tenant with notice of the eviction. This service will be either Personal Service or Tack and Mail. I will discuss the difference between the two.
Tack and Mail
When the Sheriff arrives at the property, they will try to get someone to answer the door. If nobody is home they will leave a copy of the eviction notice at the door. This is where the "tack" portion of tack and mail service originated. The Sheriff will actually tack a copy of the notice at the front door for the tenant to find when they return home. The Sheriff will also "mail" a copy of the eviction notice to the tenant. The Sheriff will mail the notice regular mail. It will not be mailed certified mail. The date the Sheriff tacks a copy to the door is the day that is recorded at the courthouse for the date of service.
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When the Sheriff arrives at your property, they may find the tenant is home. If the Sheriff actually gives the notice to the tenant this is called Personal Service. As a landlord you would much rather the tenant be served with personal service.
The difference between the two types of service is that Personal Service has more advantages in the eviction process. If you tenant is served personal service and then does not show up for the court date, you can get a judgment against the tenant. If the tenant does not answer the eviction process after being served personally, you can get a judgment against the tenant. In both of these situations if the tenant was served tack and mail then you would have to sue the tenant in small claims court to get a judgment against them.


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Newly minted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will enjoy the highest honor of her young career on Saturday -- she'll be throwing out the first pitch at the Yankees-Red Sox game.
"Having Justice Sotomayor, a South Bronx native, participate in our yearly Hispanic Heritage Month celebration is very exciting, as she is an inspiration to so many," Manuel García, the Yankees' director of Latino Affairs, said in a statement. "We are proud to welcome her and President Martinelli to our new home."
Like any properly reared denizen of the South Bronx, Sotomayor has a deep affinity for the Bombers.
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Obama also credited her with saving the 1995 baseball season by issuing an "injunction that helped end the strike," calling on the owners to reinstate their previous Collective Bargaining Agreement and to "bargain in good faith" with the players' union.


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So....I signed up for Online Card Classes Watercolor for Cardmakers when it started back at the beginning of May. Fast forward (if anyone remembers what that is!) to the past couple of days. My students' last day of school was yesterday. Mine was today. See reasons for progress? lol!
I am hoping to have more to share soon, but here are a couple of cards that I made yesterday and are already out the door on their way to do what cards do...make people feel that someone cares. I used some new goodies from Simon Says Stamp & Altenew as well as some stuff that has been in my stash for awhile.
|This was the beginning of the last card. It was a bit of a mess, but I put enough effort into it that someone was going get it!
Stamps: You are my Sunshine (SSS), Ink: Black - Versafine, Dies: You are my Sunshine, Watercolors: Peerless, Paper: Distress Watercolor & Glitz - Gray Paper, Enamel Dot: MME
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Here's the first trailer for Robert Rodriguez's From Duck Till Dawn TV series, which... reimagines his 1996 movie, and I say reimagines because I don't know how else to say "completely rewrites Quentin Tarantino's original script and made it a dramatic story about two horrible criminals who take refuge in a vampire brothel."
I'm actually not a fan of the original film, but even I know that taking this ridiculous plot super-seriously is probably not the best way to go. I guess we'll see when the show debuts on the El Ray Network on March 11th.


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I kept track of all the named women, unnamed women, references to women, any mention of wombs, breast, menstruation or any other reference to women's bodies and functions. Reading the scriptures through the lens of women completely changed my perspective and understanding of the scriptures. I use to dread personal scripture study and sometimes even fell asleep during it... gasp, you've never done that have you? I had a hard time relating to the stories, especially in the Old Testament, but when I discovered the women in the stories a whole new world opened up to me.
I realized that these women lived lives not too different from mine, they struggled, fought, cried, doubted, bore children, breastfed, loved men passionately, and most importantly... they lived. They were real women who had real struggles and learned important lessons that were unique to women. I no longer fall asleep during scripture study but am excited every day to discover a new woman and a new story that I can relate to. I understand now the wisdom behind what Nephi said when he told us to "liken the scriptures" unto ourselves (1 Ne. 19: 23-24).
The Full Challenge
1) In the next year (ideally) read the ENTIRE standard works, Old and New Testaments, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price. You don't necessarily have to start with the Old Testament you can start in wherever book you like. You can even just start from where you are in your personal scripture study right now.
2) Keep a journal of all the women you find mentioned, this includes named and unnamed women. This should be a journal just dedicated to women in the scriptures. Hint... it will probably be much bigger than you think it needs to be.
2a) If you don't want to keep a journal another option is to mark your scriptures with the same color whenever you find stories or references to women. Here is how I have marked mine in case you need a visual example.
3) In this journal write down questions, thoughts or inspirations that come to you as you read about these women's lives. Here are some questions you might like to ask yourself when you discover a new woman.
4) Let God teach you new truths about what it means to be a daughter of God.
The Half Challenge
This challenge is the same as the full challenge except that you aren't undertaking the entire standard works. Pick one book of scripture and read it from start to finish specifically looking for women and their stories. Write each one down in a scripture journal and record what you learn-- or mark them in your scriptures.
By far the Old Testament has the most women but it is also the longest. The New Testament has some remarkable women that I'm sure most people haven't ever heard about. The Book of Mormon will surprise you with how many women you'll find. The Doctrine and Covenants might disappoint you-- it is a book of revelations not a history book like the other books. The Pearl of Great Price has some amazing stories of women that will boggle your mind.
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Anyone who has known me for any length of time knows I already can't stand John McCain, his recent years border enforcement posturing with Pinal County Sheriff Babeu notwithstanding. Every six years McCain runs to the right and then spends his six year Senate term sliding to the left and insulting the right, reaching across the aisle to those whose policies are, at best, Socialistic, and, at worst, Communisitic (yeah, I said it).
Anyone who has known me for more than 5 minutes knows that I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien since I was a child. I have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings more times than I can count. I have watched the movies at least 20 times. I even went on a Lord of the Rings Movie Location Tour of New Zealand and intend to go on another after The Hobbit movies are released. Seriously, I love the story which is, at it's core, a story of Good vs. Evil. On the side of Good are the Hobbits. The Hobbits represent innocence and purity and all that is Good in the world.
For the WSJ to attempt to turn "Hobbits" into an epithet is outrageous. How dare they mock The Tea Party as "Hobbits". To be called a Hobbit is not an insult. It is a compliment of the highest order. It is saying you are Good and Righteous. For John McCain to agree with the statements from the WSJ so much that he chose to read the statement on the floor of the Senate thus preserving the sarcastic insult for all posterity is infurirating!
Clearly, the idiots at the WSJ editorial board and John McCain either didn't read the Lord of the Rings, or didn't watch the movies, or don't believe in Good and Evil, or are just too stupid to comprehend the point (that must be it since they don't even seem to understand that Mordor is actually part of Middle Earth). The Hobbits win in the end. Sure, it's a long hard road and they are mocked along the way and given little help by the elites, but they win in the end. HotAir did a great job of pointing out that inconvenient fact.
What the WSJ said
But what none of these critics have is an alternative strategy for achieving anything nearly as fiscally or politically beneficial as Mr. Boehner's plan. The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue, and the public will turn en masse against . . . Barack Obama. The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.
John McCain reading the idiocy on the floor of the Senate
RedState has a very funny piece titled One Does Not Simply Mock Into Mordor


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