[Autumn of Ginny] Obsolete Activities

[njbookwoman]

As we get older, we expect to fall back a bit in keeping up with the latest changes. Maybe we don't really care about celebrity gossip or the latest i-Phone app, but I do believe that being current keeps you young. So I was surprised the other day when my son remarked that a large part of my day was spent in doing "obsolete activities." Wow! I'm not an early adapter, but I certainly don't view myself as the old curmudgeon in the corner who says "Bah, Humbug" to every new technological advance.  Gee, I pay my bills online and follow Facebook and twitter. Some of my routine activities revolve around tasks done for the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, but here's the list:

1. My weekly trip to the post Office to mail packages or buy stamps. OBSOLETE!  You can buy stamps online if you must send things snail mail and packages can be picked up from your house.

2. My trip to the bank to deposit checks. OBSOLETE! I did ask the Chase teller if I could just take a picture of the check and send it to my account but he happily replied that it wasnt available yet for business accounts. After all, he added, soon we'll have to start selling milk here to get people to come in (and to keep him in a job!)

3. Buying said milk and groceries from an actual trip to the store. OBSOLETE! have I never heard of Pea Pod or Fresh Direct?

4. Watching TV for either movies or tv shows OBSOLETE!  When I could easily see the same shows on my computer.

5. Going to an actual movie theatre! OBSOLETE! See #4

6. Being one of the few remaining Netflix customers who waits for and anticipates the delivery of the red envelope. OBSOLETE! (But I do have the Netflix streaming option, too!)

6. Having the newspaper delivered each morning and reading the paper version. OBSOLETE! So much more eco-friendly to read your digital subscription on your iPAD or laptop.

7. Listening to books on CD in the car. OBSOLETE! I recently saw an ad for a new car that offered no CD player at all.

8. Printing out pictures and putting them in a picture frame. OBSOLETE! Get digital, lady.

9. Still loving email. OBSOLETE! Too slow and old school. Message me for goodness sakes.

10. Actually going to the library to browse and pick books. OBSOLETE! I have a kindle and I use the library website, but sometimes it's just nice to go there.

11. Going shopping. OBSOLETE! Tell that to all the other shoppers that crowd Route 17. Amazon may rule and online shopping is easy, but nothing beats seeing and touching the merchandise before you buy.

While the modern improvements make things easier, sometimes you wonder if the intent is to get us all to the point where we don't need to ever speak to another human being. (Good and bad there!) Can you add any Obsolete Activities of your own?

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Posted By njbookwoman to Autumn of Ginny at 1/25/2015 11:13:00 AM

[musk_ox]

Balancing a checkbook on a piece of paper.  Using a dictionary -  the book type.   .....Sorry about this one - but getting an initial diagnosis from a source other than a web seatch.  

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[Beth Freed]

Great email.  Try fitting that into a text!

In a former life we had to get off the sofa to change the thermostat.  Now your Nest app can do it.

Obsolete to twist your body to drive in reverse.  Now you can watch your rear view car camera to see behind you.

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[g knackmuhs]

haha-- Yes! we all love Dr Google!

 

Ginny Knackmuhs

VP & Treasurer, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network

mbcn.org
201-280-9507

"..fighting for treatments to extend life and make metastatic breast cancer a truly chronic disease like diabetes or HIV/AIDS"

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From: musk_ox <mus...@msn.com>
To: autumn...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:17 PM
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[g knackmuhs]

Beth: You're so up on things!--I'm afraid I still get up to change the thermostat and look around because I dont trust that camera. Old school!

 

Ginny Knackmuhs

VP & Treasurer, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network

mbcn.org
201-280-9507

"..fighting for treatments to extend life and make metastatic breast cancer a truly chronic disease like diabetes or HIV/AIDS"

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From: Beth Freed <beth...@gmail.com>
To: autumn...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Autumn of Ginny] Obsolete Activities

[Peter Haynes]

Ahhh the era of the app and the end of place; as in a time and place for everything (and the world continues to turn turn turn....sure I'm one for the Byrds).   

Back in the day - a snow day meant you were at home and "disconnected" from where-ever you were supposed to be.  Nowadays you can work from anywhere so technically the snow day is obsolete.  :(

I miss directions scribbled on pieces of scrap paper: "when you get to the fork in the road, take it, we're on the right you can't miss it, the blue house with the byrd bath in the yard"

Or agreeing to meet someone somewhere at sometime.  So you stood around for 15 minutes and serendipity took control.  Hmmm maybe there's an app for serendipity (note to Scott:  Get cracking' on that! Haha (oops haha is obsolete, lol)

Rock-on Bookwoman

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[Peter Haynes]

Ahhh the era of the app and with it the end of place, as in a time and place for everything.  The world continues to turn turn turn.  OK so I'm one for the Byrds.   

Back in the day - a snow day meant you were at home and "disconnected" from where-ever you were supposed to be.  Nowadays you can work from anywhere so technically the snow day is obsolete.  :(

Whatever happened to directions scribbled on pieces of scrap paper?  "When you get to the fork in the road, take it. We're on the right you can't miss it, the blue house with the byrd bath in the yard"

Or agreeing to meet someone somewhere at sometime.  So you stood around for 15 minutes and serendipity took control.  Hmmm maybe there's an app for serendipity? note to Scott:  Get cracking' on that! Haha...oops haha is obsolete! lol

Rock-on Bookwoman

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On Jan 25, 2015, at 11:13 AM, njbookwoman <vhk...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Peter Haynes]

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On Jan 25, 2015, at 11:13 AM, njbookwoman <vhk...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Peter Haynes]

   

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[Peter Haynes]

Ahhh the era of the app and with it the end of place, as in a time and place for everything.  The world continues to turn turn turn.  OK so I'm one for the Byrds.   

Back in the day - a snow day meant you were at home and "disconnected" from where-ever you were supposed to be.  Nowadays you can work from anywhere so technically the snow day is obsolete.  :(

Whatever happened to directions scribbled on pieces of scrap paper?  "When you get to the fork in the road, take it. We're on the right you can't miss it, the blue house with the byrd bath in the yard"

Or agreeing to meet someone somewhere at sometime.  So you stood around for 15 minutes and serendipity took control.  Hmmm maybe there's an app for serendipity? note to Scott:  Get cracking' on that! Haha...oops haha is obsolete! lol

Rock-on Bookwoman

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On Jan 25, 2015, at 11:13 AM, njbookwoman <vhk...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[g knackmuhs]

You are so right--from the haha woman herself!

 

Ginny Knackmuhs

VP & Treasurer, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network

mbcn.org
201-280-9507

"..fighting for treatments to extend life and make metastatic breast cancer a truly chronic disease like diabetes or HIV/AIDS"

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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 8:09 AM

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[Liz Haynes]

Here I am a few days later, why you ask, well too much technology for me. I used to let the stack of mail (from the mailman) pile up (still do) now I let e-mails pile up too. Way to much junk "mail". FB, Twitter, it's all too much. And talk about FB, that's all some people do all day, so that's going the way of the 2 mails also. Post office, grocery store, bank, the "mall" (although that's slowly moving down on my places to go) pharmacy. I like to get out and see people! And please when you call, try the "real" phone first, but don't leave a message there (can't seem to figure out how to get messages) if no answer please leave a message on my cel, I do know how to get messages on my cel! Technology, I don't think it's for me, but give me a good mag card reader, a real type writer, a land line and real people and I am a happy throwback!

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[Gknackmuhs]

Well said, Liz!

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