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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.<\/p>\n

Hey, it’s Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

With that, I want to proclaim a minor victory today with operating my new smart phone.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em>. (OK, so I ranted just a little bit.) <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

Do I have them all mastered yet? Pardon me while I laugh out loud.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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