New gadgets are like birthday presents any time of the year!

I'm a computer nerd, so I especially love electronic gadgets. Phones, automatic cat feeders, e-book readers, pencil sharpeners, and basically anything that goes "whizz" and "zoom". The oddity is my phone. I use a computer for messaging and basically everything, so getting a phone for me was never a priority. I'm happy with a flip phone. Well, my wife couldn't stand it and got me an actual smart phone (hardly a fancy one, but suitable).

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So, now I'm tickled with a new gadget to tear apart and put back together, lots of new fizbang stuff to mess with, and essentially a new toy. It's great! What's even better is how I basically can't do any real harm to the device, unless I drop it off a building or run it over with my van. Also, I am now officially part of the 21st century. Yippee!

Of course, without electricity these will all become paperweights. It's easy to take for granted the ability to plug a device into the wall and get power to it. There are plenty of other things we never consider either, but I won't make you feel bad (or me). Suffice it to say that our generation is blessed with incredibly powerful devices of luxury hardly dreamt of in years past. Imagine what H.G. Wells would think of our society? His brain would explode.

- M