Doctor John joins the 21st Century

People say I'm technophobic. Actually, I'm just techno-wary. There's a gap between the time we gain a new technological capability and the time we figure out how to utilize it wisely and discretely.
I was about the last man in the country to get a cell phone. National Geographic did a feature when I walked into Verizon Cell Phone Botique, walked out of Verizon Cell Phone Botique, and walked next door to buy my $40 Net 10 pay-per-use at OfficeMax.
I was hoping to hold out until the second decade of the twenty-first century, but my quasi-administrative position made it necessary for people to find me. I rather enjoyed being "unplotable" (everyone always assumed I was in the other classroom) but now I have to found. It was either that or carry a two-way radio. I could never get that thing off my belt, and it was awkward when students saw me in the hallway shouting at my right hip. Now my LG phone vibrates, I do the Cosby dance, and pull out my LG flip phone.
When I finally master one new form of technology, another comes along. I couldn't figure out why my cellphone kept telling me that I had 5 messages when my voicemail file was clear. Finally it dawned on me... TEXT messages. I can text message and even respond, but only at a hunt and peck rate.
The fact is that I've been using most of these new technologies for decades. While living in France in the late 1980's, I used to text my friends on the "minitel" units... black and white screen, macintoshish units that just about everyone that had a telephone possessed. As for blogging, I've been doing that since Mark left for South Africa in 1989. I've sent out my weekly "theme letters" to family members for more than twenty years now, I just did it in hardcopy. People used to call it "writing letters."
So now, on the first day of the second decade of the twenty-first century, I am opening a blog of my own. I didn't mean to, but I had to set up an account to respond to my sister's site, and I accidentally my own blog. Go figure. Just don't expect me to include anything I wouldn't want shouted from the rooftops. Remember, my fellow bloggers, people are listening, and if I've on board with the technology, everyone in the country is listening.