The good thing about texting is if you are in a restaurnt or something you
can answere privately, I text but I have to use regular English, the T9 is
a tad to much for this old lady.
Judy
Support Save Your Ass Rescue
----- Original Message -----
From: "sabine" <calkinsart@...>
To: <DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:38 PM
Subject: [DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS] Re: OT-- My Twitter won't Tweet - funny one



well said :-) --- i "get" computers but not all that phone stuff... texting
baffles me. why not talk? all the apps seem like a giant distraction. more
things to lean on rather than be creative...

oh well....

sabine




--- In DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS@yahoogroups.com, "circleh" <circleh@...> wrote:
>
> And "he", knows how to get to graduations by pulling out a roadmap, and
> calling people and asking for directions, gets in the car and lets his
> wife
> drive as often as he can, knows his vet's number, has all his other
> numbers
> on one sheet of paper, all his prescriptions on one sheet of paper in his
> wallet, doesn't know his cell phone number cuz he doesn't call it,
> patched
> his weanlings nose by sitting on her and applying disinfection and folding
> the flap closed, keeps in touch with people through email and 4:30 beer
> sessions that the neighbors somehow find and Sunday phone calls with his
> kids, is disabled but never would file for it and still works, hates his
> computer but uses the damned thing, and knows how to get where he needs to
> go and doesn't need to go where he doesn't know how to.
>
>
>
>
>
> Russ
>
>
>
> Russ & Gloria Hauenstein
>
> CircleH Ranch
>
> Blanco, Texas
>
> www.miniature-donkey.net
>
>
>
> From: DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Judith Merritt
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:33 PM
> To: DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS] OT-- My Twitter won't Tweet - funny one
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> He is married and not hip to modern life and equipment! What good would he
> be?
>
> Judy
> Support Save Your Ass Rescue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Emily Lee Phillips <mailto:emily@...>
>
> To: DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS@yahoogroups.com
>
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:33 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [DONKEY-MULE-PHOTOS] OT-- My Twitter won't Tweet - funny one
>
>
>
> Hey, now! I am 61 and not only use all that stuff "Grandpa" laments --
> but
> teach others how to use it. Twitter's a better source of news for certain
> world situations than any newsroom on the planet. Without Twitterific in
> my
> iTouch, I'd be lost. Oh, yeah, and without the GPS in my Blackberry I'd
> have missed my daughter's college graduation. Without eFax I'd never have
> gotten onto federal disability in three weeks flat. Without the ability
> to
> sync my iMac's address book to my iTouch & Blackberry I'd never have been
> able to call vets in a hurry when Gigi tore her eyelid and needed help
> STAT.
> With the web in my iTouch and my MiFi (mobile hotspot, cellular
> modem/router
> combination) I could Google local vets and find a new one in a hurry --
> out
> in the back where my wifi doesn't reach. Facebook is my connection to the
> human race on days when I'm stuck at home alone.
>
>
>
> For fun I wipe hard drives of everything Microsoft put in and install
> Ubuntu. That's Linux. Like Joe Barr loved and touted every chance he
> got.
>
>
>
> Nope, not ready for the back shelf yet. ;-) I might like Grandpa here,
> but
> gosh, I wouldn't know what to say to him!
>
>
>
> ;-)
>
>
>
> Emily
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:47 AM, circleh wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> My daughter said she thought of me when she read this. I'm kinda proud it
> did.
>
> This was too good to keep to myself, especially with how old everyone is.
> Jim is a tech whiz, but everyone else is either an old geezer married to
> one
> or taking care of one.
>
> Russ
>
> Russ & Gloria Hauenstein
>
> CircleH Ranch
>
> Blanco, Texas
>
> www.miniature-donkey.net
>
>
>
> Things are spiraling out of control. I think I have become lost in a world
> of electronic madness.
>
> One of my sons informed me this week that my cell phone has become
>
> obsolete and I must head down to the Cell Phone store and get a phone that
> is contemporary with the time.
>
> I pointed out that the fancy Razor/Slim line phone with camera built in
> that he made me trade my perfectly good flip-top Motorola cell phone for
> two years ago still works perfectly fine. Well, except for the camera
> thing.
>
> Never could figure that out.. Even the few times I actually did take
> pictures
> I couldn't figure what to do with them and gave up.
>
> That is except when I would push the wrong button and take a video of the
> ceiling or my feet.
>
> Seems the issue is that I am unable to text with the tiny little 3
> character
>
> buttons. "Hi, son," would come out looking like, "Gh Qmo." My
> grandkids have even spoken to my wife about Poppa's crazy text messages.
> Give me abreak. Whatever happened to actually talking on a phone? Isn't
> that what they were invented for?
>
> They want me to get one of those phones that you can turn upside down and
> sideways and has a typewriter keyboard with keys about one-eighth the
> size of my pinky finger. One of my four sons is a realtor whose real
> occupation is fly-fishing. "Way to go, son."
>
> Or in text language, "Xbz um Io, rmo."
>
> We were floating the Yakima River in his guide quality drift boat south
> of Ellensburg , Washington. We were miles from anything remotely
> resembling
> civilization. Rock canyon walls were on either side of us. Bear with me as
> I
>
> try to explain this thing.
>
> His "Blackberry" rang. It was blue and I asked him why it wasn't called
> a Blueberry. He shook his head with that 'dealing with an elder despair'
> look I get a lot these days. It was another realtor who called to say that
> the sellers he represented had agreed to my son's client's changes and he
> had the signed documents in hand.
>
> My son told him to FAX the papers to his office and he would get them
> signed and Faxed back, to close the deal that morning. A minute later the
> phone rang and he hit a few buttons and looked ove r the FAX, now on
> the Yakima River with us. He then called his clients and told them he was
> Faxing the papers to them to sign and asked them to FAX them back to
> his office. While he was waiting, he hooked into a fat rainbow and was
> just releasing this 22 inch beauty as his phone rang again with the signed
> FAX from his clients.
>
> He called the other realtor and told him he was sending the signed papers
> back by FAX. The deal was closed. He smiled and just said, "You are a
> little behind the times, Dad."
>
> I thought about the sixty million dollar a year business I ran with 1800
> employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos,
> pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.
>
> I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids,
> their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate
> with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple
> as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
>
> That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree,
> Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and
> something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other
> program within the texting world.
>
> My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything
> except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready
> to
> live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.
>
> The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost
> every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that
> in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am
> supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at
> Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone within 50 yards was
> glaring
> at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and got a little
> loud.
>
> I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside
> was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every
> 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating" You would
> think
> that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She
> would
>
> let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next
> light.
>
> Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.
>
> When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the
> cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as
> Jill, the GSP lady, at least she loves me.
>
> To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless
> phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't
> figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around
> digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry
> baskets when the phone rings.
>
> The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every
> time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on
> something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I
> Check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth
> re-usable bags to avoid looking confused but never remember to take
>
> them in with me.
>
> Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me,"Paper or Plastic?" I just
> say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual." Then it's their turn to
>
> stare at me with a blank look.
>
> Have a nice weekend
>
> Grandpa
>
>
> _____
>
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>
> Emily Lee Phillips
>
> Bernalillo County, NM
>
> http://emilylee19.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
>
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