I don’t know why they insist on pulling me into the next generation of electronics…it’s just going to change again in six months.

My husband has been dragging me into new technology for the past 23 years. He insisted that it was for the best that I give up my manual typewriter for the electric he bought me for Christmas the first year we were married. I loved my old manual but for him I changed (and he was right too but I still haven’t admitted it to him…*ggg*).

Then it was the bulky Tandy computer that would revolutionize my life…oh and the handy boards I could dial up and get tons of recipes from a board he found for me…just think of all the information I’ll be able to get in just a few phone calls.

A few computers later and AOL would open doors that I never dreamed possible. Lots more recipes and people I could chat with about cooking too. Message boards just for romance readers and authors I could chat with as well.

All the while my camera changed from 35mm to a bulky video camera that was a pain in the shoulder (literally) and my vinyls were tucked away so I could listen to cassettes instead but that was ok cause I could get books-on-tape.

Several computers later came the laptop with a ten foot phone cord so it was much easier to chat with all these wonderful friends that I had made online with the same interest in cooking and books.

Soon I was on loops that I checked everyday with a laptop I could sit on the toilet and chat because of the wonderful invention of wireless internet. I’ve gone from paperback books to an ebook reader to a palm pilot to an Axim. I can now check my emails or go online with my PDA instead of the laptop if I so choose.

I have fought getting a walkman CD player because the books-on-tape I have are just that…books on cassette tapes. I will once again loose a lot of my collection like I did when my vinyls became out dated (and you couldn’t by new needles for the stero).

So what are they trying to do to me now?

An MP3 player…and how are they working on me…books on how ever they get them on that little thing the size of a credit card. The man is smart, he got me hooked online by showing me all the wonderful recipes I could find and all the wonderful authors and readers I could chat with on the loops. Now he’s dangling books on an MP3 player to get me to give up my old walkman cassette player and my books on tape (cause that's all I use my walkman for anyway).

And if that wasn’t enough the kid laughs at me because when it comes to technology my smart-aleck teenager knows more than his mom…*sigh*…sad but so very true…*ggg*.

So I guess I’m getting an MP3 player for Christmas…my only question, how long until this becomes obsolete?