Endeavors

We bought an electrical device for Cindy to download books and magazines off the internet to the device. Cindy is excited; however, we have not been successful in readying the device for downloading any books. So at this point, we have a piece of plastic machinery with circuitry within that is sitting on the couch right now, with all the attendant packaging and what-not around it. Of course, we can still buy books the old-fashioned way and filled our little house with books from stem to stern, from crawl-space to attic.

We have another device on the floor beneath the entertainment center which is supposed to provide entertainment, exercise and what not for the whole family. It has not since around January.

I am not a Luddite, I think. But sometimes I wonder if all this electrical wizardry we purchase is worth the money we pay for it. I can still read a book. I have many. I can still play my guitar, without electrical components. I can walk out of this house and walk around the block or drive out in the countryside and gain much more than I would glean from any of the electrical devices we own and store in our house.

I would like to climb a mountain. I would like to catch a fish in a cool stream in North Georgia. I would like to take my guitar out of its case and play some music, if only for myself. I would like to listen to some musicians perform live. I would like to watch a football game in person. These are much more healthy endeavors, I think, than any of the ones I first spoke about in this blog.