Besides, I think your comments about iPhones and technology are interesting…but I don’t want to get into a good v. evil thing, so here are a few observations about my experience with my iPhone – mostly positive. I’ve had mine a little longer than you have, so maybe they will help you and other readers (yeah, right!).. In recent months, I finally discoverd texting. Of course, texting has been around for awhile, and the boys and to some extent Jan have been texting for a long time. After I got my iPhone, the boys and Jan started texting me and the next thing you know, I’m texting thing right back. Texting has a real advantage for me…I mostly use it to send very short messages, usually stuff I forgot to tell someone or want to make sure I don’t forget to tell them. Texting is pretty unobtrusive…the receiver of the text message doesn’t have to do anything right away, but the message is right there on their phone and they will read it fairly soon and respond as needed. Again, I won’t be interrupted when I get the response unless I want to be. So as a way to improve family communication efficiency, texting is great. The messages are short and practical…typing (or more appropriately, tapping) on an iPhone is limiting, so we don’t have any real conversations with it.

The “bliltzed out teenager” comment has likewise been directed at me, also from someone (David) whom I had recently said the same thing to. I’ve found the headphone music to be very useful when doing tasks that are somewhat unpleasant or boring…like mowing the lawn, or painting the house. The most wonderful thing to me is the accessibility to tons of music at the iTunes Store. You can get whole albums or just specific songs you want, and usually priced very reasonably. I’ve found that some recordings don’t digitalize very well, and that can be disappointing.