TECHNOLOGY

I have just finished changing my password for the third time in order to access MY OWN BLOG!

Is it a bug?  Is it a virus?  Am I really that FORGETFUL?  Somehow GOOGLE even changed my NAME, as well as the password at least once.  I also have a business account that I need to access monthly, but have to change my password at least every 45 days.  Does that get frustrating trying to remember the various passwords that I have used on that account!  You can't use the same password a second time - the program says in no uncertain terms "that password has been used previously, choose another!"  Yet, there are people who routinely use a 25 to 35 digit password to access their brokerage account, or their bank account with nary a thought of some one or some COMPUTER in the sky figuring it out and hacking into their account.  So how did GOOGLE change my NAME without someone hacking into my account?

As a REALTOR I deal with technology a lot.  I hate to think of the "olden days" when the listings were picked up at the Board of Realtors office weekly and copied and dispersed in each office.  The local REALTOR in STRAWBERRY used to have a book of his own with photos, to-scale drawings of the property, and its location on a map of the town so his customers could let their fingers do the walking before he put the key in HIS ignition.  Even in the old days gas wasn't cheap as a percentage of income!!  

I can remember my mom saying that a tank of gas was cheap entertainment - we were a one car family so except for a walk to the corner grocery she was a "shut-in" while Dad drove the car to work.  His work day precluded taking public transportation as the bus service, even in Denver CO, was not available when he got off.  So not only was it cheap entertainment, it was a chance to talk, see a different angle on her world, and possibly we children MIGHT go to sleep in the backseat - to be carried to our beds with no fuss.  

My husband, in doing pre-marital counseling, suggests a car ride with a full tank of gas when communication problems are the problem of the day.   Of course, you have to leave the radio off and communicate, remembering all the loveable things about each other that caused you to want to get married in the first place.  Hard to do with children fighting in the back seats for attention.  Maybe a babysitter AND a full tank of gas in the car!

BACK to Technology - has it replaced communication, has it replaced intimacy, has it replaced awareness, has it replaced common sense?  A friend was telling me this morning before church of her research into "electromagnetic hyper-sensitivity"   She said that we live surrounded by wi-fi, radio signals, TV signals, pagers, microwave signals, all sorts of "dirty airwaves!"  SOME people are super sensitive to these polluters, just as some are super sensitive to germs, stress, or addictive substances/behaviors.  Could you turn off your technology-centered life?  Do you require your vacation destination to have all the comforts of home as well as its technology?  Do you ever feel a NEED for a less stressful life.  (see my last blog!)  Call the Rivers Resort and book a stay AWAY!!  Of course we do know where your AT&T cellphone will work, we even know of a couple of places with wi-fi, but we are proud to say that THE Rivers Resort is not one of them YET.