Paper or Electronic

While visiting with my grandma is [almost] always fun, believe me, the last few times I've visited her, she's mentioned the news paper and her thoughts on it. This has got me thinking.

• She still reads the news paper. I don't.
• She gets the paper. I go online if I want info.
• The paper gets thinner while online info gets more abundant.
  

To me, this is just an interesting thought. Here we are, only a few generations apart, but we're worlds different in terms of where we get our news or information. Generally she's still into paper things: magazines, newspapers, newsletters. She declared this recent visit how she only uses her computer for e-mail and for when she decides to have her sewing machine work with it. She's had issues with that since she first got her computer so e-mail in the form of chain letters and coded e-mails (now that I get her typing style, I understand her) is the way she goes. Oh, and she'll use the computer if something is interesting on TV, but her printer is icky and she needs her new one hooked up.

Honestly, I love my grandma, but she complains about technology ("How'd we survive without cell phones?" she asked when I wanted to know where my mom and bro were and when they'd be back so The Philosopher Musician, myself, and Grandma could make dinner plans). She wasn't pleased when I brought The Philosopher Musician's laptop to the living room a few times (so I could be around and do my work). She does have a point though. How did we survive with out this stuff? My cell phone, I'm REALLY curious about. Everything else, I get it.

But, she has a laptop (what possesed my uncle to give her that thing I'll never know-it's junky), a digital camera, a digital camera printing doc, a scanner/printer/copier, and her super duper sewing machine (a Bernina).

The sewing machine is where we differ (surprisingly). I have her old 1960s Singer sewing machine. That thing is a BEAUT. It doesn't automatically thread the thread. It has discs to do designs. It is perfect. She has her new embroider sewing machine with a screen, automatic threading, and it's new. I think that thing is too technical to me. She loves her machine. I love my inherited machine. For sewing, I find simpler (less techonology) is better.