Gawd, where to begin!? I have a cell phone that I use only when I'm out and around in my electric wheelchair, just in case it poops out on me and I wind up stranded somewhere. Or if I'm cruising through the local Safeway and I call Barbara to see if she wants me to pick up anything while I'm there. Phone calls. That's all I want to use it for. Making phone calls.

I got the simplest one the company offered. But it'll wind the cat, put out the clock, start the coffee in the morning, and give me the weather report and my daily horoscope!

Our VHS player/recorder went belly-up a few months back, so we got a nice new DVD/VHS player/recorder. I've been wading through the manual and have come to the conclusion that I need an engineering degree to figure the thing out.

And I'm not exactly technologically illiterate. I used to work in radio stations and I have an FCC 1st Class Radio-Telephone operator's license.

Sheesh!!

Don Firth