| 6ixStringJack: Shawshank is just a great feel good movie. Miss those. I find that not having a smart phone is a real good way to compartmentalize my life. I really do manage to keep my politics to myself and not think about them much if at all when I'm out in the actual real world. Too many cell phone brains out there today. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I'm not sorry either. Said that to the poet after we had lunch. Her husband came to get her to do something else. She looked around for him and I spotted him stopped to which I said, "He's playing with his phone." I can't see the point. Barely anyone calls me on a landline, so why waste money on something I will never use. And if I have a seizure out it's not like it's going to be any use anyways. |
| Brenda: I did like Shawshank Redemption and I think my library should still have a copy of it. I will be in my local library tomorrow. Returning something that I don't like. So I should look for it. |
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| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. Still not sorry I don't have a smartphone in 2025. Why don't you have one? Just cause like me? |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. If you liked it, you should give it another watch. Especially if you haven't seen it in years. Hit me in the feels, which is a rare thing these days. Told my old man that I'd seen it a dozen times when I was young, but hadn't seen it in probably 20 years now. One of those rare ones that means a little more when you're older instead of a lot less on a re-watch. At least for me it did. |
Brenda: Yup, I resemble that remark. Doesn't matter where you go today and everyone has one of those dang things.  I haven't seen Shawshank Redemption in years. It was a good movie. |
6ixStringJack: Haha.  Yeah. Me too. Good for us since we're the only ones in the waiting room without smartphones. Just rewatched Shawshank Redemption with the old man a little while back and when they pulled Andy out of solitary he said he had his music with him and he pointed to his head. |
| Brenda: That can happen too. I've listened to some of my music so much that I know most of the lyrics by heart. That doesn't bother me though because I have something to think about while in the dentist's chair or waiting at a doctor's office. |
| 6ixStringJack: I've got a bit of a playlist still, but it's only a few hundred songs compared to the thousands and thousands I used to have. My problem is that I've listened to most of my favorites in the background so many times at this point that none of them really mean anything to me anymore. It's why I try (and usually fail) not to listen to a new song I like too much because it just becomes background noise after a while. |
| 6ixStringJack: Ted's hoping for nuclear war or another great depression. That's the rest of Ted's life now. Oh well. |
| Brenda: Really? Nuclear. Let me make it clear THG. I am not done with this world. |
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| Brenda: I understand completely about the music thing. I see what you mean and yeah anything else would really do for me. As I said music is so woven into my life almost from the start that I can't stand not having it at my finger tips. Like anything else everyone has their own thing about music. |
| Brenda: Yeah, that saying of Yoda's is good to remember. That's my mantra at times for sure. |
| Brenda: It is nice when I know what I am suppose to be doing. Especially with my writing but I learned years ago the value of lists and still make them out for various things. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah.... See... I can't agree with you on the music thing. Give me a curated digital playlist that I don't have to think about anyday over the way we used to do things. But that's what I meant about you having and being able to maintain that intimate connection with music you love. It's BECAUSE you would not want to listen to them outside of tapes, CDs or vinyl. I envy that. I can't even be arsed to rebuild my digital collection which really wouldn't be hard to do. There's no way I could go back to loading up a CD just to listen to the one or two good songs I'd want to hear on most of them after tasting too much of the forbidden fruit. |
| 6ixStringJack: It's one of those Yoda things... "Do or Do Not. There is no Try". I know as long as I keep saying things like "should" that things I need to get done aren't going to get done is all I'm saying. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. I stopped doing lists around 6 years ago. Still got a lot done without them for a long time, but never was as on top of things after I let that list slip away from me as I was when I was on point. With the work I do it's kind of the same thing, where i can usually find stuff because it's all there "somewhere". It really was nice always knowing though, wasn't it? |
| Brenda: Yeah, I've got the odd song on tape that my mum liked. But I can't listen to Hank Snow or Wilf Carter. I have a friend who in her last move got rid of all her music. Everything she listens to now is on YouTube or she has one of those SIRI things. No thanks. I want my tapes, CDs and vinyl. |