My Desk. A statement on the 21st century.

This may appear to be an ordinary desk, and I am sure that many desks look just as cluttered. But as a person of age, it is also a statement. Many thanks to those of you who just thought "oh, you're not that old." But I am a true baby-boomer, born almost smack-dab in the middle of the whole thing, and therefore can claim the age title, if only so a rant can have more credibility.

In the photo, I have a digital camera, a rechargeable battery charger, the batteries, a digital watch, a charger for my new cellphone, the new cell phone, the earbuds for my mp3 player, the new case for my mp3 player, a digital glucose meter that gives under-eight-second-results, a remote control for a stereo, the base charger for my 2.4 GHz portable phone, with digital answering machine, the speaker from the set connected to the computer, and the printer connected to the computer. How did I get this photo, when my digital camera was the first thing listed? I used my other digital camera, silly.

I was a sci-fi geek in school, back when we didn't have geeks. I was good in science and math, and jumped right on the computer bandwagon when they started to become available, although I admit to getting my own very much later. I studied them in college. The computer on my desk, which is five years old, can do more now that the mainframe that I used in college, and that one took up an entire room. I have a small garbage can in a closet, full of old photographs. I also have an extra 80-gig hard drive on my computer that I added just to hold photographs, and it already has about a garbage-can-full on it, and will hold many, many more. I digress. I sat here this morning amazed at the amount of electronics available to me, as an ordinary citizen of the planet. I realized that I never imagined all this would be here, so many years ago. I don't feel overwhelmed or awe-struck or anything. I just realize I may have been thinking small.