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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

I am tired of learning new things, and it is getting scarier by the day. I remember a time when I wanted to listen to music, I would either turn the knob on the radio or put a record on the phonograph. You could even listen to several records by stacking them on the spindle and they would drop down when the previous record was over. Now THAT was technology. I remember when my son was younger, his friends visited our house. They were just amazed as to how that worked. They stood and watched it over and over and over again. And laughed at me over and over and over again. On television last night, they told me that if I want to listen to music in the future, I am going to have to download the music to my MP3 player off my broadband connection and subscription music service, plug the player into my computer, plug something called a router into my computer, plug a comparable router into my stereo receiver, turn on the stereo receiver and tell the computer what songs to play from the MP3 pla...