Gotta love my parents!

I went to my parents house--the wonderful farm where I grew up---to help my dad with some "tech" issues he was having.  I walk into the house with my Macbook computer, my iPad, my iPod Touch, and my new iPhone.  My parents have a Macbook laptop and desktop---that I purchased for them---but they barely know how to use.  I'm not criticizing by any means, but it does remind me that there are many people out there, including my family, who could really care less about all this "computer stuff" as my mom calls it.  I spend an hour with dad working on his spreadsheet issues and another hour showing mom how to import photos from her digital camera and then how to attach photos in an email.  We had at least three pages of written step-by-step instructions on how they "should" be able to do it on their own.  I have to smile when mom says she doesn't need to learn this because if she wants it done, it can wait until the next time I come home.  She says she has lived 67 years without this stuff and hopefully she'll live another 67 without it also.  Their life revolves around each other and all the farm work, while mom says that my life is revolving more and more around my tech "things."  I have to agree with her.  I'm always excited to see what is new on Facebook or Twitter or on all the RSS feeds that I receive-----and then I spend even more time exploring all the things I've been introduced to while reading everything.  It's a vicious cycle.  So, at least while I'm at the farm, I'll disengage myself from all these tech things and just enjoy the simple life, the non-digital life, that my parents enjoy every single day.  I'm sure I'll spend hours and hours when I get home catching up on everything!