Technology

When I was young it was called Typing so I took a typing class in the summer of 7th Grade at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School then likely in the summer of 1960 or 1961 then.

Now it is called "Keyboarding" because most people don't use typewriters anymore. I took this typing class because I could more easily create my term research papers for school. The one I remember the most was one on "The History of the Automobile". I was very into cars now and around this time I memorized every model of every American Car then one year because I was so into cars and wanting to own my own car and drive. I already had owned my first motorized vehicle at age 12 that I owned about 25 years until my father died where I kept it at my father's 2 1/2 acres in the California desert that he and I built on weekends from 1968 until 1980 when he and Mom retired there where he lived until he passed away in 1985.

So, typing was what I learned in order to do better in school on my term papers. But, like all technology I could not have foreseen how much it would help me when I was forced to retire in 1998 from a heart virus. I had promised God that if I survived my heart virus (Neither I or the doctors knew what was wrong then until I had gotten better. And the doctors said that I was very lucky because most people die of heart viruses before they are diagnosed. In fact, I was the ONLY person I was aware of in California who survived a Heart virus in 1999.

So, like I promised God I started a blog (they didn't call them that then) in 1999. Then you just said you had a website and I'm not ever sure the term Social Media was in existence then in 1999 but maybe it was.

So, the technology of a "Blog" gave me part of the discipline one needs to survive being retired. I meet a lot of people who want to be retired but most people aren't suited to it actually because they just drink themselves to death within 1 to 5 years time or make some other mistake that kills them like not going to their doctors for diagnoses of their ailments.

The biggest part of survival after 65 would be getting Medicare which reduces your medical expenses by at least 80% from what they were before this.

So, the technology of learning to type on a typewriter has helped me in the meditative discipline of running one or more blogs ever since. And the technology just keeps right on changing too.

I would definitely say that technology is lengthening lives in the developed world and for educated people everywhere and it will continue to do this ongoing.

Without my education and native intelligence and the fact that I am a consummate survivor like my forebears I likely would have died at 50 with my heart virus or before.

However, basically I refused to die because I had a 2 1/2 year old daughter I didn't want to leave fatherless and a 10 year old daughter I didn't want to leave fatherless as well as several adult children as well in 1998 and 1999 so I refused to die and I'm still alive here with my youngest now 25 years old and living in Portland.

By God's Grace