Sunday Strolling

What a beautiful Sunday :) Weather wise it was ho-hum but the rain held off and allowed us to spend a little time just roaming around, dancing under the trees ring around the rosy style and taking in the fresh air.

This time of year always calls for a little bit of self reflection as our homeschool year is coming to an end and I evaluate what worked and what did not. It's a time to think about plans for the fall, what books I want to use and where we need to re-focus.

I came across an interesting article today called 'Our Cluttered Minds'... What the internet is doing to our brains.
.... computers are destroying our powers of concentration. As the blogger Cory Doctorow, a co-editor of the wildly popular Web site Boing Boing, has observed, the typical electronic screen is an “ecosystem of interruption technologies,” encouraging us to peek at our e-mail in-box, glance at Twitter and waste away the day on eBay. And so we lurch from site to site, if only because we constantly crave the fleeting pleasure of new information...

I'll admit I'm guilty of wandering past my desk frequently throughout the day to do a quick mail check and if I'm not careful it is awful easy to get sucked into a half an hour or more of mindless browsing time. Why is it that I can cut the television out of our lives yet I'm a slave to the computer?! It's an amazing resources for educational material for the children, a crafting bonanza for the creative types and yes the social part of it is a great perk especially when you live rural and don't see many people on a regular basis as is my case but holy doodle I can see how it could suck your day away. Thank goodness I've got some will power or I could see myself locked in a room 24/7 with only the glow of the monitor to keep me company. *shudder*.

Oh boy, I've got to shut his baby down immediately before it sucks my last brain cell out through my retina! LOL.
~ Rosina

My Very First Laptop

Hee hee, I told you I might share what my very first computer looked like and I actually found a photo that looks just like it! Boy does this date me LOL.

It was a real beauty to be sure and must have weighed at least 30 pounds! The keyboard snapped right onto the front of it where the mini monitor was with clips and essentially it was one giant box with a handle. Gee, now that I think of it, it was like a stone aged laptop! LOL.

I remember lugging it from school and back home and I nearly couldn't make it because it was so darn heavy, but I was so happy to have a computer. With my big floppy disks and dot matrix printer I was totally styling back in the day *grin*.

How about you? Were you lucky enough to have a gem like this one? *wink*

~Rosina