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It was late into the night before Peter finally closed the hood of his car after finishing the work on his engine . At about 10 PM he was sure he had finally fixed it. After carefully examining every part of the car he went inside excitedly to ask his wife to join him on a car ride . Darlene was sitting in front of her computer in the den. “What are you doing? I was going to take the Nissan for a ride,” he said. She didn’t answer at first, just hushed him for a minute. Peter watched the screen closely. It occurred to him that she wasn’t searching the web, she was doing something on Microsoft Word, but he wasn’t sure what it was . What seemed like hours passed, and she finally told him that she did not want to go and that it was too late for a car ride. “What is that?” Peter asked her. She was obviously annoyed by him asking, letting him know that he already knew that she was in charge of her high school reunion “Yeah, you went to Evanston High School, right? Didn’t you say there were, like, 1300 kids in your graduating class?” “There are exactly One thousand, three hundred and forty-six to be exact. Hey, aren’t you going to take the car?”. He was too intrigued by all of the names and questioned if she knew all of the people on the list. “Of course not! We had four different schools in one, I told you that before.” Peter reminded Darlene that once she tabulated all the names and tried to track all of those people down, she would need to have some kind of Data Storage Solution. This way, she could keep a database of everybody, at least until after the 20th reunion was over. At this point he realized that it was way too late to take the car for a test drive so he just gave his wife a kiss and told her goodnight .
My friend Bob was so pumped about the music collection he has . I cannot believe how many songs he has on his computer, it seriously amazes me . I could not even begin to imagine how many I would have on mine if my computer were capable of downloading music . His music collection impressed me like I have never been impressed before . Bob doesn’t have a favorite alt rock group. He loves every one of them, from the New Pornographers to Death Cab for Cutie and back. I realized that his computer was the optimum Online Data Backup “I get whatever tune I want at the push of a but-ton!” He grinned at me, as if to say when are you going to get yours? Hey, that’s OK; I can just come over and listen to his whenever he’s home, right? By the way, he also downloaded every single song to his blackberry, so now he can even dig the crazy sounds when he’s not home. Brian can immerse himself in music on the train, in the car, at the coffee shop, wherever. It’s so strange to think about how much has changed sine I was a child, even compared to when my parents were children, my dad always talked about playing stick ball and other May Day games, now you rarely see children under the age of six playing at the park because they are all inside playing playstation or downloading songs onto their iPod’s . You sure can’t do any of that on a computer, not even on a video game. All the active physical stuff is lost. Life isn’t simple these days it seems very complex.
I get so tired of filing all these names for the dentist. It’s great that he’s getting so many new patients, especially since they built those homes a mile down the highway from us—but really. I asked him to hire another person, even if it is just part time but he said no . I’m not complaining, I love my job, but I am so busy at work that I sometimes forget that there are patients in the waiting room . With all the new patients, the filing work will never be done . This patient is coming back next month to fill a cavity, that patient needs to be referred to an orthodontist for a root canal. Last name is Brenner—let me see, does that come before or after Brennan? There must be some type of Emergency Backup.