Gidgets and Gadgets

All hail new technology!! It has brought us great things, like vaccines, automobiles, and the Large Hadron Collider. It has allowed us to surf the web at breakneck speeds so that all the information not blocked by the governments of your choice is available to you at the touch of a button, instantly, on a screen bigger than your head. It has allowed us to connect with people we have yet to meet and reconnect with old friends with whom we have lost touch. We can record things with devices the size of our palms and take pictures of things millions of miles away. But with all this newfangled newness comes the danger of too much enticement. We get caught up in all the new things we can do and forget the way things used to work. What happened to letters? To postcards? To...Facebook?


The reason I bring this up is because, apart from my internet being really slow at home, I have been neglecting my FB and this blog, despite doing Greece prep things like buying swimwear and getting a checking account. Because...my neighbors decided that since I was turning the big 2-0 and going to a place with lots of beaches, that I might as well take pictures of all the beachiness with my new...

Yeah, that's right. If I wasn't an Apple girl before, I am definitely so now. And I've been addicted to playing this one game called Sprin, where it's basically a bouncy spring toy bounding up these platforms and collecting apples. Nom. Why deal with the slowwwww internet connection I have at home when I can just connect to the 3G network AT&T has so graciously offered me for a price I decline to mention? That being said, I worry that I will simultaneously get too caught up and get used to this piece of awesome technology I have in my hands. That I will neglect social conversation in favor of rocking out to Tap Tap or honing my wastebasket paper throwing skills. And that I will start taking it for granted and eventually start to drop it all over the place and break it, as I have done with many other techy items in the past (harken back to my old phone...whew). That being said, I am very grateful to have so many opportunities to get cool stuff like this and have personalized with what I like to call...failcow. :)

My iPhone officially looks like this:

Happy Wednesday,

Angela