I Sure Miss My Old Typewriter (standard:humor, 906 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Feb 15 2020	Views/Reads: 1490/1112	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Maybe the way I do certain things today has changed, but the message is always the same. Techniques change, but words never will.

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I set that new computer up in my office and started fiddling around with
it to try to understand how it worked. Much to my surprise, the more I 
fiddled, the more I liked the music I was hearing. 

I did not have to use paper until the manuscript was completed and I
could print it out on a printer. If I made a typo, I could correct it 
right there on the screen, no problem. 

Getting adjusted to it was difficult for me. I remember the first
chapter I did and worked very hard to complete, but I forgot to save it 
on a disk and lost that whole chapter. I was a little provoked because 
my old typewriter would never have done that! 

Through the years, I have regularly upgraded my computers to the point
where I do not have to do much typing anymore. I can dictate into my 
computer and see words appear on the screen. 

Looking at that old typewriter, I thought of what Solomon once said.
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is 
done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the 
sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). 

Maybe the way I do certain things today has changed, but the message is
always the same. Techniques change, but words never will.


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