always wanted to do this.

   but the closest i came was carving me a pair of sasquatch shoes i have used on occasion. i actually carved a human foot on these platform logs to create a man ape foot much longer than mine. i used them on a survivalist neighbors garden in the soft soil looked great. it does take a bit of getting used to when wearing these and now i admit to how easy it is to roll off the sides of these shoes. couldn't imagine how  a woman walks in heels.

    imagine stilts take some getting used to along with uncle sam outfit and little kiddies wanting balloons in the heat. to me it is recipe for disaster as i could imagine me getting light headed and making everybody's  worse fears come alive as i start to weeble and wobble, and then fall down.  people running and screaming like a bad godzilla movie, as my shadow overpowers them with  doom as they might get caught under my hulking mass as i tumble face first into the hard grassy turf. yeah i better stay off stilts i am tall enough already. 

    again i digress as i should be talking about computers and technology as it has changed my life. well to understand where i am going with this you must understand  how i came to think about this subject at all. i bought a new cell phone which has  a touchscreen and internet capabilities with android base operating system and bluetooth as well as wifi capability. it is a learning experience and it also takes digital pics i have already shared with you and doubt you could  not  pick over a regular camera. this phone per se , also has gps capability and speech recognition as well as mapping ability. the only thing i need is a cell tower at the top of the hill for better service. but what i have isn't bad and i was and i am amazed at the capability of this phone. and it has good to excellent voice quality. when using as a phone. and the price is modest. it is dick tracy's wrist phone in reality. imagine shooting a video with your cell phone,  say something like the " silence of muslims", and you want to post it to u tube , you can do it in about five minutes . hardly time to get out of town before unfriendly's seek you out. this is amazing technology and doubt if they had me in mind when designing this thing. now i can sit down anywhere and write to my hearts content and post it to the world to see. no they were secretly hoping i would never buy one . oh well

      anyhow nothing makes you feel older than reminiscing about how things have changed. and i started thinking about how it has changed and decided to write about it. so humor me and read along. otherwise i might ave to change the colors on the side of your rubics cube to get your attention. 

    the 95 windows computer was a leap from the earlier apple computers i worked on but was slower than the new acad computers i was using in college. at that time i was 37, it was intimidating going back to college, and i  was in for technology shock as well.  i had spent time in college after high school that  hardly prepared me for what i was learning at a later time in my life. the only bad part was the 18 year olds understood technology better than i.

        but i caught on and the same with the new technology i adapted and survived and tried as well as tested the gadgets. trying to never be intimidated by something new. i was in awe of technology and soon had me a new 98 windows operating system with all the bells and whistles. actually more stuff than i would ever use. it was set up for a dragon point and speak writing system that would allow you to speak directly into your computer and then it would type automatically. it was supposed to learn your voice and learn from mistakes. well it worked ok but it was still faster to type and i am no expert at that. i bought my first digital camera and think i still have it. it was huge but i took a bunch of pics with it. at best i could crowd 5 pics onto it and then  i would grab a disposable 35 mm when i was on vacation if i wanted to take a bunch of pics. the 98  was a fairly good operating system and was easy to learn to fix . guess that is why they went onto the newer versions. 

      well tomorrow i will continue on with my ramblings about technology changes. later