Dictionary Day

According to my nifty October calendar, today is "Dictionary Day." Thinking about that, I started scanning my book shelves to see what dictionaries I own.  Strangely the only dictionaries I can find are two old Scrabble dictionaries.  I actually used one of those several months ago when a friend was visiting and we played Scrabble. Now I'm trying to remember the last time I used an actual dictionary in book form. I think it must have been four or five years ago at work.  Doesn't life take strange twists? When I was in high school and college dictionaries and encyclopedias were must have books when it came to writing reports.  If you had told me then that a time would come when I would use something called Google to search out information "on line" (whatever that is) I would have said it was a wild science fiction dream. This past week my grandson had to write a two page essay for his astronomy class. He researched it on line, typed it on his lap top and turned it in to his teacher via
e-mail. So Happy Dictionary Day but I guess it's only for those of us who remember the fun of flipping through the really big dictionary in the school library - back before it was called the media center- and finding new, strange words. Ah, the joys of youth.