A very popular saying is, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” Well, in today’s society, it’s not always the easiest thing to do. There are so many new “toys” coming out, one can’t collect ALL of them (though many try!).

But progress on gadgets haven’t been reserved for the young or the affluent tren-setters.  Just go to the neighborhood grocery stores or even the dollar store, and there you see grandma in the electric buggy with a cell phone in her ear.

The day of the land-line phone is dead.  I was just reading that the new 4G phone will make it possible to hook up to your laptop, so you won’t need to go to an “internet cafe” or Wi-Fi enabled Starbucks to hook up.  The only thing preventing the phone companies from tearing down their copper lines which were installed personally by Thomas Edison from the back of a horse-drawn cart (for the gullible among you…NOT) is the family from the back-hills of South Dakota who have yet to have a television in their house, and rely on the operator to make an outbound call.  This, of course, can be readily remedied.  Progress has never been halted by technicalities, though they’ve been postponed for a ridiculous period of time.  As party lines, busy signals, rotary phones and pulse dialing have become a part of the past, being shackled to an inside telephone is going the way of the 8-track and vinyl records (although vinyl’s making a comeback, thank goodness).

This brings me to the point of my post (and none-too-soon for some).  The talk of the chat rooms are about the new “i-pods”.

To be continued…