How the Times are Changing...

The other night, my roommate casually mentioned that someone from Toronto had wanted to talk to him about drafting some blueprints. My roomie casually mentioned that he told this guy they should communicate via e-mail. (this was because, he said, he didn't want to call long distance and charge up the phone bill) I knew that he was feeling me out to see if I would have minded or not. I told him to go ahead and call, it was only 4 cents a minute.
"After a certain time, right?"
I laughed and said no, all the time. Phone companies don't do that "cheap rate" or "Half Price" after six and before nine, every third Saturday and every other Sunday. That's so a thing from our childhood: waiting until after supper, for the clock to click over to 6:30pm so my mother could call her mother, long distance, and have a chat without having to pay through the nose for it.
That got me thinking as I got on the train to go to work, about how much has changed since we were kids. For myself, I can see it all around me but I don't necessarily partake in it.
I was just talking to my mother the other day and she mentioned something that I hadn't heard about yet. I wondered aloud where she had heard it from and she told me that A (my little sis) had told her. "She's so tuned it," mom said, "With that iPhone and the tweets and the updates..." And she really is. And that got me thinking to how much has changed even between people my age and hers (we have a four year gap) and how different it all is and it's all going to be!
Another example? I was sitting on the train reading a book I got from the library (my new favorite pastime) and glanced over to see a very pretty, very trendy looking girl of about 22 reading a Kindle. I couldn't believe it. I do see them occasionally, but not often. That, of course, launched my brain in to the next wave of thinking which encompassed the following two thoughts: Think how many trees we'll save when we all read from a Kindle! and OMG I wonder if my first edition of Summer Sisters will be a collectors item!?

Elsie P

PS-I am thinking about getting an iPad. Seriously cool toy and something that would allow me to blog on the go..!