When I first got my laptop computer 4 1/2 years ago, I had no idea I would become so attached to it/dependent upon it so quickly. It is my biggest entertainment and communication tool (most of you who have known me for long know that I have an incredible reluctance to call people on the phone) - email and Facebook. Most of my Creative Memories business is done here - contacting customers and placing orders. Pictures are scanned or downloaded onto my computer, edited as needed, and stored here. I do some of my scrapbooking here with Storybook Creator Plus. Research and shopping are so much easier, faster, and more convenient this way.
Those of you who are my age or older remember when none of this was possible - most of us never even dreamed of it (thank goodness someone did!). Here are some things you will probably remember and appreciate: spending entire days in the library doing research for papers and projects, writing letters and then waiting weeks for a reply, and registering for college classes by going from professor to professor to get a "punch card" and then sitting in line waiting for it to be your turn to have your cards fed into the computer to get your schedule (and then the inevitable delays when a card didn't feed through correctly and got stuck).
I love this new world!
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