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[LilacTree]

On 11/3/2014 dooBdoo said:

On 11/3/2014 bikerbabe said: To be honest, when I felt that what I was clinically depressed. I'm not talking about gadgets but life in general.

I wanted to quote your post, bikerbabe, because I think it's important. I resonate with it because I have a problem with severe depression -- and the feeling that I don't want any more change, I don't want to defend my position, I'm tired and just want peace and quiet ... these things sometimes translate into the entrance of another dark, dangerous cavern. I know on these forums it becomes a chore to post because we have to be braced for those who are always ready to attack, to ridicule, to analyze and pick apart every word.

(((Ford))) I hope you're well, and hope you're just feeling the need for a modicum of peace in a fast-paced, turbulent world which seems to be filled with nothing but bad news.

DooBdoo, you have good reasons to be depressed. Like you, I just want peace and quiet. I am sometimes asked if I am bored. I don't really get bored, I have never been a gadabout wanting excitement and longing to go to exotic lands. I have always said, "boring is as good as it gets," and I never mean that in a negative way. I mean it in the way that if one is bored, then nothing bad is happening.

And I surely do agree that we could do with a little peace in this world today, and everyone feels that, not only us.

[tansy]

Hmmm....Marien...I am going to use your mother's line on my sons

[Catitude]

Ford there are many women your age (my Mom for example) who don't even know how to turn on a computer. You're more advanced than you give yourself credit for.

Some people believe the more complicated technology is, the better it must be, when that is so not true. They wait on endless lines and spend hours just to get the brand new edition of the iPhone because it has some feature their other one doesn't, as if they couldn't function without a few new features.

Cell phones get more complicated as do computer operating systems, and most electronic gadgets including tablets and notebooks. Alarm clocks that should just have a basic on and off switch now need manuals to set up.

My dh and I just purchased a new printer/fax/copier/scanner - well we are both fairly tech savvy and we had to call a techie guru to come to our home to set it up. It has so many bells and whistles that we don't need but of course we had to have them thinking we might need them at some point.

Most of the new stuff is made of cheap plastic and break within 2 years. That includes flat screen TV's!

[LilacTree]

On 11/3/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

Ford, ITA that computers are wonderful and open the world and beyond to us. But I think you and others have reached a place of wisdom in your life where you are aware that change in certain areas is more about someone making money and merchandising rather than actually being a needed improvement. So many things I see advertised today are clearly "created needs". You may be tired and feeling old but you are also wise.

Oh that is so true. Also very true with Big Pharma . . . ten new meds every week for every conceivable symptom, with horrible side effects being pushed constantly on TV. Our society is constantly bombarded with "stuff."

If one were to sit down and just contemplate what we really need, I doubt they could count ten things.

[Shorty2U]

I agree to this extent; While I love my laptops and tablet, I cannot get into cellphones. Mine is in my purse, and I haven't used it in months..lol.

AND I am sick of life having become Impersonal. (Thankfully my IMMEDIATE family, DH and I get together constantly).

But I'm sick of messages via the net or facebook from most of my friends (and extended family IE cousins). Its time to get back to visits IN PERSON! For instance, I have one best friend from school that lives 3 miles from us! I haven't seen her since last year. (ridiculous!)

So I am taking the initiative and am inviting people close to me to go to dinner with my husband and I.

[LilacTree]

On 11/3/2014 SmittenKitten said:

Ford there are many women your age (my Mom for example) who don't even know how to turn on a computer. You're more advanced than you give yourself credit for.

Some people believe the more complicated technology is, the better it must be, when that is so not true. They wait on endless lines and spend hours just to get the brand new edition of the iPhone because it has some feature their other one doesn't, as if they couldn't function without a few new features.

Cell phones get more complicated as do computer operating systems, and most electronic gadgets including tablets and notebooks. Alarm clocks that should just have a basic on and off switch now need manuals to set up.

My dh and I just purchased a new printer/fax/copier/scanner - well we are both fairly tech savvy and we had to call a techie guru to come to our home to set it up. It has so many bells and whistles that we don't need but of course we had to have them thinking we might need them at some point.

Most of the new stuff is made of cheap plastic and break within 2 years. That includes flat screen TV's!

OMG, is that ever true! Used to set up printers by myself when I was managing a Computer Dept. for over 20 years at an accounting firm. I would plug the printer in, insert the CD to set it up, type one line to connect it to the server, insert the paper and print cartridges and . . . DONE!! And at home, just plug and play pretty much.

I went crazy with the HP Printer I have now which is copy/print/scan using Windows 8. Inexpensive little printer, should have been no biggie. Printing was okay, scanning a nightmare of having to scan the document, then name the file, put it into a directory, then copy it down to whatever (usually an email) as a "file," and then finally attach it to the email. And it never seemed to work the same way twice.

Now that I'm back to using Windows 7, it's as it was before, scan the damm thing and a box comes up with "send to" and I check "email" and off it goes.

[Surfnturf]

Hi, Shorty2you. I don't use texting as a replacement for conversation the way some younger people do. I use if for short communications. As for cellphones. This past summer at the beach, I looked over the balcony at the sunbathers, and noticed everyone was looking down. It took a few seconds for it to register, they were all looking at their cell phones!

[brewhaha]

I used to change my underwear every day. Now I only change it a couple times a week.

[colliegirls]

My friends and I say that we don't like change because as we get older the change is often not for the better!! Technology is good and also very bad. Still having teens, we see the negative side of all the communication. It is a full time job to supervise everything!!

[LilacTree]

On 11/3/2014 Preds said:

I think my problem is that we have so much change at work all the time that I simply don't want to change at home. I want my comfort zone/routine to stay the same. My DD says I'm just lazy and she is probably right.

I am extremely sedentary for a host of reasons. I should have been more active before I got sick . . . I think had I been more physically strong, I might not be as immobilized as I am now. I am either lying down or sitting at this computer, and so many times my pulse races to over 100 or more just from getting up and walking across the room. Of course that's not "lazy" in the sense you mean it, I realize that.

I do remember work used to exhaust me, especially during menopause, and it was all I could do to get home, make something to eat for myself and anyone who happened to be home at the time. Then I would go upstairs, take out my NY Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle book (I had no TV in my bedroom at the time . . . didn't watch TV in those days), get in bed and just "vedge" until I fell asleep. The difference is I had been active all day, which is no longer the case.