21st century multi-tasking

None of this would have been possible when I was a kid. Young people nowadays would find life back then equivalent to the horse-and-buggy days. This evening I've been watching The Westminster Dog Show on TV, pausing, fast forwarding and rewinding at will, while on line swapping e-mails and Facebook messages with friends from virtually every period of my life. A friend from Junior High who I haven't seen in 40 years and we're bantering back and forth... sharing photos with the woman who beat me on Jeopardy 13 years ago... a singer I currently work with on G&S projects, and also keeping up on postings from an assorted horde of others. I've got 80 friends on Facebook, which seems a lot to keep up with, but others have hundreds and one has over 3,000. That boggles my mind.

Of course to anyone reading this, all this is old hat. But if you're over 50 I bet you still stop and marvel at it all.