I Will Take As Many Words As I Want To Write This Story

In 1980 l was nineteen years old and studying Electrical Engineering...basically because I thought “electronics” would be a backdoor into sound engineering.

Apocalypse Now had come out six months earlier...l had heard The Doors for the very first time!...(after being bought up on classical music since l was three) and life was suddenly “interesting”.

Anyway, Electrical Engineering was totally boring, just maths and more maths.

Designing electrical circuits for power delivery.

And something called “computer programming”.

Of which you had three hours of computer time a week.

So one day...my friends and I were sitting in the cafe talking.

About how one day there was going to be a home computer.

And we thought “what would you use it for”?

I said...”well you could work out your shopping”?

“Monthly bills”.

Nothing “else”.

(I dropped out soon after).

You could have taken even more words to write this story. Adding perhaps that anonymity provided by the net has led to an incalculable increase in drivel.

Since the dawn of written history writing has been a precious endeavor. The medium and the skills were in short supply.
Now it is a base commodity practiced by even the least skilled. We are inundated daily with senless treatises that in times past would have never seen publication.

However, on the bright side, without computers I would have never met you so I like them for that.

I do vote that we take Twitter away from the President.

Haha, I understand completely. It is like teaching a child to talk, we know where that leads.

then log off.

Damn straight.