Write on...

 Thanks to my west coast brother I know that today is "International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day."  It's also "International Pick Your Nose Day" but yuck, who wants to write about that?

" International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day" is a day set aside to encourage writers to post professional quality works for free on the internet, especially works of science fiction.

I'm not sure if what I'm posting here qualifies as professional quality, but since I have been paid for some of my writing, I'll assume it does.

Of course I had to do a little research to find out what on earth a technopeasant is, but Wikipiedia came through again.  It is, by definition, "someone who is disadvantaged or exploited within a modern technological society, especially due to their inability to use or understand computer technology."

I have one friend who falls into this category, although I would never call her a technopeasant to her face.  We live across the country from each other and only communicate by snail mail.  It's kind of fun to have a pen pal in the old fashioned sense of the word but also frustrating at times.  I can't just take a picture on my phone and text it to her, nor can I encourage her to read my blogs.  No emails of course. Just thinking about it makes me wonder how I ever got along before computers, laptops, tablets and cell phones came into my life.  I guess I may have been a technopeasant in the olden days, but there really wasn't that much techno to worry about.  I learned my way around a computer by playing "Oregon Trail" and I could operate a television, radio, record player and telephone.  Woo Hoo!!