Investing in Technology

I've been blessed to have some competence with things scientific, mathematical, or technological, maybe the way to talk about it is things, or processes that have what occurs to me as systematic logic. Ever since first grade, that kind of thing has been easy for me. There's also a particular acumen with animals, wild and domestic.

People on the other hand took a lot longer to understand. From over here, it looks like you, the people over there, are a lot better at working with people than I am - probably just some childhood decision I made about myself, but a lurking sensation, none-the-less. Get to the point? What? Are you having a hard time following? Ok. Ok. Allow an old man, sorry, senior, to digress a minute will you? Back to the technology thing.

Let's take this blogging thing for example. It's taken me at least two or three years of punishing self-deprecating thinking (that voice in my head again), and after suffering through that, another couple of months of listening to the voice lecturing me, then prodding me, then finally yelling at me to get off my butt and get to it, to finally getting on with learning how to blog.

Once I finally promised myself to do so, it took about twenty minutes to find out how to do it, and to get it started. Anyone else would have just done it right away, yes? So I found myself wondering, Why would you suffer the agony of that whole process for something that took only twenty minutes to accomplish?

It occurred to me that I've finally reached my point of saturation, being overwhelmed with the complexity and speed of technological change. Just in my little corner of the world, there's Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, smart phones, video conferencing, webcasting, projection cameras, bird feeders, smartmail, bristle stars, texting, golf scopes, DCC train controls, Wii boards, K'nex, wireless 3D TV, Spotify, E-Booking, Energy-beam blasters, Viagra, dictionaries, Banshees, Thanators, and Sarcos's, to name a few.

That leaves out the old stuff like computers, instant stock trading, Windows 7, I-pods & I-phones, GPS maps, fishing poles, energy efficient light bulbs, and smart-wired houses that I've already learned about and know how to use. Well maybe not our smart-wired house. I mean it's wired of course, but so far, it's proving to be smarter than me. I mean it's still doing things automatically that I don't know how to stop or start. Nor do the electricians, or technicians or service people I call to bail me out from time to time.

But I digress again. The point my friends is the plethora of stuff. I call it stuff because I can't yet get it all classified. My grandson Evan on-the-other-hand, seems to have no difficulty absorbing and navigating through it all; while I, for the first time in my life, am calling for a truce! I can no longer keep up, comprehend, or in anyway, hope to survive the technological onslaught. Thank God for Jim Cramer! He at least tells me where and where not to invest in it.