Check-in Here

A NYC cafe full of people on their iSwippythings...

Posting, tagging, checking in-

But certainly not making contact with the friends sitting next to them.

I belong to a generation that has the best if both worlds. 

I know how to Tweet a sassy thought, post an interesting photo and check-in to share my location to anyone interested (including the government).

Fortunately, I still remember how to UNPLUG! 

Do the social media tech savvy children of our future even know what a handshake is? Or do the fist bump without looking up as the swipe to a new app?

United in RAGE!

I really miss quality customer service.
I know I sound like an old man-
But I actually remember a time when it was a pleasure doing business with people.
Now, it's a pain in the ass!!!
I spent exactly 53 minutes on hold with United Airlines;
I had to listen to their recorded message remind me that, "The estimated wait time is approximately 3 minutes."
Ninety percent of why I stayed on the line so long was to tell them how annoying their false sense of hope is.
The rage built up so bad that not even telling off a low level customer support rep at United could keep me on hold...
The worst part is I still haven't been able to redeem my airline miles toward that ticket to Hawaii~
(That I CLEARLY NEED!)

Remember Mix Tapes?

What happened to the good old days?
Remember when you could pop a cassette tape into a tape deck and hit record?
Love mix tapes. Break-up mix tapes. Dance mix tapes. BFF mix tapes...
Even after CD's were introduced, we still found time to seek out our favorite songs from various CD's and record them onto one fabulous cassette tape that we would play over and over again on our lunch break to and from high school...
Then digital music swooped in and everything became so clean and "easy."
You can have all of your music in one place and share it with the world.
Too bad I spent six hours last night trying to cut two songs together in Garage Band.
A simple task, that SHOULD be painless. Considering the marvels of what a Mac can accomplish.
Unfortunately, with the onset of "convenient" music available at the click of a mouse, comes strict encrypting techniques that make some songs virtually impossible to cut, splice, mash or tweak.
Sometimes I really miss the days when you could steal music from the radio and no one cared!