I am going to suspend for a day or so any gripes, rants and raves and overall snarkiness about the state of politics and policy.

Hey, it’s Thanksgiving.

With that, I want to proclaim a minor victory today with operating my new smart phone.

I managed to send a blog item I had written for Panhandle PBS to my Twitter account. I tweeted it today — using my phone — to my network of friends and assorted contacts. And, because my Twitter account is linked electronically to my Facebook account, my 400-plus Facebook friends got to read it as well.

I had written about President Abraham Lincoln’s brief but poignant Gettysburg Address and noted how such a brief statement — it was just 269 words — wouldn’t be possible in the Internet/TV/Social Media Age. Today’s instantaneous communication makes it too tempting for pols to bloviate ad infinitum — not to mention ad nauseam. (OK, so I ranted just a little bit.)

The story for the day, though, is that I’m starting to get more comfortable with the myriad tasks this cellular telecommunications device can perform.

Do I have them all mastered yet? Pardon me while I laugh out loud.

Maybe I’ll become more proficient in all these tasks. I just hope that day arrives before one or both of my sons talks me into getting an upgrade. Then I’ll have to start over.