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FRIDAY, May 10, 2002
THE BOERNE Star
PAGE 5A
Has ‘progress’ made
your life (a) easier or (b)
much more complicated
I’m going to ask this ques- LETTERS FROM NORTH AMERICA ' today, now you have to have 5
tion and I'd like for you to
respond by holding up your
hands, unless you're driving
and reading (which you
shouldn't be doing anyway) or
operating some dangerous ah 9
power tool, or cooking or well, Dot
just forget about it, I wouldn't ======
be able to see how you would vote anyway.
What I'd like to know from this survey is for
you to tell me if you think that with all of the
labor saving devices we have had offered to us
over the past 50 years, has your life: (a) gotten
easier and you now find yourself having oodles
letters and 3 numbers, which
means that unless you were
Peary Perry weird and named your dog
Rover 409, if you're like me
• you'll have a hard time
— remembering what galactic
I interstellar code you need to
- see if you have enough cash in
your checking account to buy some hot dogs and
a few beers.
Now, in addition to our needing some form of
organizer to keep track of the phone numbers and
ways to get in touch with our grandmothers, we
now need something to keep up with all of the
of free time left in the day to enjoy whatever you passwords and user names we have assigned to us
like to do, or (b) your life has become a living hell for each and every account that we want to use
since you have too many things to keep track of from time to time.
as well as too many choices to make forcing you Enough to drive you crazy, isn't it? The other
to be on Prozac, aspirin, wine and yoga all at the day, I called in to initialize some new credit
same time. card... they wanted to know where my Mother
I suspect the majority of you voted for Item # was born, in case they needed to ask me for secu-
B, since everywhere I go I hear people complain- rity purposes.
ing that they aren't getting enough of any or all of I don't even think I remember where I was
the following... sleep, money, fishing, food, exer- born, much less my mother. You can't take the
cise, sex and so on and so on. chance of writing all of this down on something
Case in point, when I was a kid some years simple like a piece of paper simply because if you
ago, we only had to remember 3 phone numbers, do and it gets stolen, your entire life is over as
These were: our house, where our Dad worked, you know it. Someone can take your identity,
and the phone number to our grandmother’s Why they would want to be me, or take my
house, identity is beyond me. Perhaps they lost theirs
Can you do this today? Forget it. Nearly and have to get started someplace else, who
everyone has a phone number, a fax number, a knows? All I know is that rather than our lives
cellular number, a pager number, an e-mail becoming simpler and easier, they have now got-
address, a web site... in addition to some place to ten harder and more complicated.
actually send mail. This of course can be a mail- Maybe I'm just slow and behind the times, but
ing address, a physical address or a post office I think I'm running out of brain memory in order
box. to keep up with all of the numbers I need in order
These are not the same places, by the way. I just to maintain my daily life. I probably need to
almost forgot, you would probably need another go in and get an upgrade of some sort.
number to retrieve your voicemail messages. In Do they have those? If not, I bet someone will
my book, that adds up to possibly seven or eight come out with one soon. Look for it. Trust me,
numbers for each and every person you and I you'll need it before we get out of this thing alive
know. Far too many to remember. So, we have to Comments go to www.pearyperry.com
have things to help us keep all of this stuff orga-
nized. Ergo, the PDA or a computer or something
else to store all of this new information.
On top of this, we have a passwords and user
names which enable us to get into our checking
accounts and access our cell phones for messages.
When we first started using passwords, you could
designate something simple like your dog's
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CITIZENS OF FAIR OAKS
RANCH
We thank you for your support at the May 4, 2002,
City Council Election. The overwhelming re-election
of the three incumbents reaffirms your confidence in our
city government. We pledge to continue the Fair
Oaks Ranch culture of low taxes and good services.
Also, we particularly appreciate the efforts of the
Fair Oaks Ranch Good Government Committee for
their campaign support.
"Boots" Gaubatz, Mayor
Raymond Balcer, Alderman Place 1
Cheryl Landman, Alderman Place 2
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Keasling, Edna. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 2002, newspaper, May 10, 2002; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1650506/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.