Back in my day Mice had balls...

So the other day my wife and I decided that we were going to focus on making our house, our home.  I think this means different things to each person but to us it means putting everything into this house instead of waiting "cause we're gonna move".  This means we need to purge that which we don't need and start with the process of creating a solid home.(2 Timothy 2:19-21)  I'm excited for this because there are things that I think I have put off doing because I was assuming we were going to move (probably a thought for a future blog post).

So why am I telling you this, and what does it have to do with the title...glad you asked!  My job was to go through the electronics and determine needed to be done with them...you know, what to do with the speakers, cd players and VCR that I'm sure we will need again because DVDs will never make it, and determine...Are we going to sell them?  throw them?  donate them? Chuck them in a field and hope no one catches us?  Probably not the last one.
So job 1 was go through the wire box.  This is the box that had all the old speaker wire and cable boxes, I think there was some splitters in there too.  I'm just glad no small animal decided to make it a home.  After I got the wires separated ("you got to keep them separated") and put into baggies for possible sale I moved onto other aspects of the pile.  Here is were I found the inspiration for my blog.
While going through some old computer parts, monitors, keyboards etc. I came across a mouse for our last computer.  I flipped it over and there you have it...a ball at the bottom.  I got to thinking about how mice nowadays only have that spooky red light not a little rubber ball.  My kids will never get the joy of having to undo the bottom of the mouse to do a mini-vasectomy and clean out all the dust that collected in there.  Our kids will not know the joy of getting in trouble because they were taking their mice apart (not in science class but in media or computer lab or whatever they call it now) to throw around the contents.  Will our kids will never be restricted to a mouse pad???  Nooo, they will be able to mouse on any surface they want to with out worry of running out of room from the edge of a semi rubber semi cloth thing that we were forced to use...to use the mouse.


So although it was sort of unnecessary to tease you with the thought of little mice balls(my sure my wife got a kick out of the title).  I hope I helped remind you of something that's different for you from the other day.

To the Cloud

So the other day my daughter and I went out to eat...I like being able to spend time with my kids and as a side note should be working on spending more 1 on 1 time with the boy, and I digress.

We went out to eat, Granite City, and then wanted to spend even more time together so we went to a local mall...and there...with all it's amazing awesomeness...was an istore, or an icloud store, or an "ineed an itowel to wipe away the idrool" store, whatever the fruit store is called, we walked in...

Seriously, AWESOME, but do I need an ipad to tell me what an itouch is? How do you think I would know how to work an ipad if I don't know how an itouch works??  There was so much technology there and a lot of it was duplicated...but that doesn't mean I didn't stop at every piece of gorilla glass covered electronics(regardless of the size) I could find.

So why am I telling you this? No reason. Turns out I have an iphone, which I am actually blogging from while shopping with my wife, and I thought I would see if I was maximizing my phone's ability.
Unfortunately, the store was packed and I was unable to get the attention I wanted from an iemployee, so we just drooled on their stuff and left.  Oh yes, idaughter drooled too.

Honestly though, technology has so many upsides I just hope that Apple got it right and that their logo - the apple with the bite out of it - represents our eyes being opened to possibilities like Adam and Eve, vs a "less than it could have been" life for generations to come...like Adam and Eve.

I'd prefer that one day we don't look at ourselves and say "I liked it back, the other day, when my life was more sunshine than iclouds"