Technology is moving at hyper-speed, it seems.  Add to that the current trend of planned obsolescence - the approach of computer companies to create devices that will be out of date in a year or two, and I begin to dream of the days of record players, rabbit ear antennas, and telephones that did nothing more than make calls.  Just reading this, I am reminded of my father who drove me crazy whenever he referred to my stereo as a 'Victrola', but I'm in my 50's myself now, and I am suddenly much more sympathetic toward my dad's technological faux pas. 

You see, two summers ago, my daughters gave me a brand new I-pod for Father's Day.  Our middle girl, Naomi, patiently taught me how to add music to it from my CD's.  Although I occasionally used it for albums I just wanted to listen to, most of the music has been for our show.  It took quite some time to get all the music for all my routines on the handy little device, but once it was on there, it was there to stay... or so I thought.

When the original laptop to which I originally synched the I-pod died, I was told that I shouldn't try to download any more songs until I had someone adapt my new laptop.  I really don't understand it, but it seems that, without this adjustment, I could lose all my previously recorded music. 

I went months without adding music to my I-pod, but finally I found someone who knew how to do the work I needed.  After about half an hour, he told me I should be all set.  When I went to add some new music - I was finally going to get the music I wanted for a new routine - I was no longer familiar with how to do it.  So I hired a high school kid to add the music for me, for the rather steep price of half a dozen of my wife's home made maple whoopee pies.  In no time, Seth had the new music on my I-pod, but all my old music was gone!  This was Tuesday, and I had a show Saturday, so I needed to restore all my music quickly, and in some cases I had to locate where I had left some of the CDs. 

I have rerecorded the music I needed, and I again know how to do it myself.  Seth is going to explain to me how to save all my music to the 'cloud' so I'll never lose it again, whatever that means.  Thank God for 16 year olds, or us old guys would never be able to function in this age of technological advances.