16.03 Lahaina Pali Trail East, modified: Blue, shades of blue, is my world
We are enormously impressed with the technology of today. We often wonder how we managed to survive the period until the turn of the century. We underestimate our ability obviously, as we made it without a cell phone, computers for the first 25 years of life and email, to mention a few inventions. The list of gadgets is endless. However, one of our favorites, winning hands-down these days, is the automated answering services at companies and government offices. It saves one having to communicate with a fellow human being—now that’s progress. Over the last month, we have needed service that one cannot explain to a machine, strangely enough. Clearly, the options are limited, ranging from 0 to 9 or letters for the more sophisticated. Unfortunately, letters are a little more complex because the telephone manufacturers have bunched them together—you can have three letters per button on the key pad. Shows you how clever the systems are when they can read your mind and know which ...