Some things seem to have disappeared overnight from our time period, by our, I mean the old farts contributing to this thread. Try to find a phone booth for example, where did they all go???Another good example, I am getting ready to paint a frame with the motor in place and thought I would pick up a Sunday newspaper for coverage. I had to go to three different convivence stores to find a Washington Post and the cost was a wopping $5.00, for one newspaper. Out local town paper has all but gone out of business and mainly pushes subscriptions on line. I think the world of print media, once extremely powerful, has been completely over ridden by the innerweb. The one thing I cannot adapt too is the conversion to reading books electronically, my Wife has her IPAD and buys books on line, for the life of me I cannot do that, flipping pages pushing a button. I need a real book, with covers, and do read a great deal. I like to find a series, "ie" John Gisham, John Sanford, Patricia Cornwell, or Michael Crichton for example and read the books in order of publication. When the pile in the walk in closet get to point where my Wife complains, I load them up and donate them to a local book store, who sometimes I have to sweet talk for awhile to take them. I guess we are saving some trees with this massive paperless trend, but some of life's little joys like a good hardcover novel on a cold winter day, with a hot cup of coffee, are worth the sacrifice IMHO.....
