One of the things I need to do for myself is to admit to my own
weaknesses. I have to quit pretending I
am not sick….PS… I hate being sick. I
have spent the best part of the last few years trying to prove to me, my family, and anyone else in my sphere that I am fine.
I am tough, strong, invincible and that list of adjectives goes on and on. I think it worked!
Recently things around the house are changing, they are my
daily physical reminders that it is not true anymore. One of the first was the installation of
several Amazon Echos around the house so I could call for help from any where
in the house, plus I am “hooked” up to my son’s system so he can check my door
cameras. When I want to turn on a light,
fan, radio station, charge the thermostat setting or just about any other
question I have, I can say “Alexa” and she answers and makes it happens!
Since day one of the first Echo install, I am mentally whisked
back to Miami and the premier of 2001 A Space Odyssey…it was a big deal, we
even dressed up to go to the Coral Gables Theater opening of the movie. I only
remember 2 things about that movie…the obelisk at the end and “Hal”. I thought “Hal” was amazing almost as cool as
Dick Tracy’s watch, telephone, and video screen. I have a watch that does some of those things and
a cell phone that does a ba-zillion more things than my first 25 lb. computer. So, the verbal commands should not be that big
of a deal. But they are! I am still giggly when my house (or a spaceship)
answer and perform tasks I simply ask for is here in real life. Not a day goes by that when I call for Alexa
that for a split second I am mentally transported back to Miami and a group of Jr.
High School friends, that movie, and of course “Hal”. It reminds me of such happy times!
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