Life is a learning experience

Fidál (Grace), 7 Qudrat (Power), 166 BE – Tuesday, November 10, 2009 about 5:24 AM Pacific Time

At 62, I am still learning. I decided to bundle my services with CenturyLink, the phone company in Las Vegas. I have telephone, with long distance, satellite TV and DSL. Someone installed the Satellite, which is with the DishNetwork, on November 2.

This morning when I got up, the receptor box was making an odd noise and the satellite would not come on. I called the 800 number and the young lady with customer service walked me through getting the box working again. It turned out all I had to do was reboot, that is unplug the box from the electricity and plugged it in again.

The satellite box comes with a built-in DVR, which I have not used yet. I will use the DVR to record Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Specials. I do not celebrate Christmas, but I do enjoy watching some of the Christmas Specials.

I Miss Watching Television

‘Idál (Justice), 3 Kalimát (Words), 166 BE – Wednesday, July 15, 2009 about 12:26 PM Pacific Time

I never thought I would say or write this, but "I miss watching television!" It's my own fault that I didn't get the converter box for digital. It's my own fault that I have a television setting in my house that's only use is for a paper weight.

I grew up with T.V. I remember watching a black and white T.V. in the living room of my parents and grandparents house. I remember the first color T.V. my grandfather bought. Grandpa always had the latest technology. We always had a working television set in the house. I miss watching T.V.

It's not that I watched a lot of T.V. I watched PBS on Saturday and Sunday. The rest of the week, I watched the news and Dr. Phil. I watched the news more often then Dr. Phil. Still, I miss watching television.

I found a picture of me as a child

Istijlal (Majesty), 10 Sharaf (Honor) 164 B.E. - Wednesday, January 9, 2008 about 7:19 PM PST

I found a photo of myself as a child. I think that it was taken around Easter maybe in 1949 or 1950. The house in the background is in Blackwell, Oklahoma. I think the house was on West College.

That picture was taken in another century. The world has changed so much since my mother took that picture. Earth is a different world now. I'm amazed when I think of the events that have happened in my lifetime. I saw the first man land on the moon and the destruction of the twin towers in New York. I sit amazed at the freedom marches in the south during the life of Martin Luther King.

The things all those events had in common is communications technology. I watched the freedom marches in the south on T.V. I saw the first human land on the moon on T.V. I saw the twin towers in New York destroyed, but not on T.V. I got the news of the twin towers over the Internet. I first watched the towers fall on an Internet web page.

When that picture of me was taken T.V. was in its infancy. I remember watching Howdy Doody and the original Mickey Mouse Club growing up. My parents and my grandparents had black and white Television sets. I wasn't introduced to the Internet until I was over thirty. Now I'm sixty-one and I use the Internet all the time. In fact, I get most of my news on the Internet rather then watching T.V.

My how the world has changed and I with it.