This all reminds me of a Conductor I once worked with back about 15 years ago named Gary Marshall. (To clarify, this is NOT the same Gary Marshall that was a TV Director in Hollywierd, opps, I mean, Hollywood.) Gary told me back then that he had no computer in his house and didn't ever want one. His attitude was that it was the Electronic Version of CB Radio of the 1990s, except worse. With the computer, once something is created, it is in black and white, whereas CB radio was verbal of course, and after you were done talking, that was the end of it. As for me, and I guess it is because I have the time mainly, I still do many things the old fashioned way. Instead of getting on the computer or phone all the time, I go see people in person, pay bills in person, buy my Amtrak Tickets from a Station Ticket Agent in person, among other things. Computers, radios, telephones, cell phones, fax machines, printers, etc. are great, but, as Ed Von Nordeck recently said, this is part of the reason we are loosing the "Human Touch" that was more apparent, even over 20 years ago. I once new a guy named Chris that maintained communications equipment before he retired a few years ago, and he reads these posts, by the way, and he is probably reading this one right now. He used to complain to me that Train Crews relied way too much on their radios to the point where it was overkill. Well now, I can say, especially for the younger generation, they now rely on their Cell Phones and Computers way too much. I know how to survive, both on and off the job without these devices, but I can see that much of the younger generation couldn't, they would not know what to do. I hear it all the time, that, "I have to have my cell phone, I have to be able to be contacted by my family day and night, no, no, no, I can't turn it off, ever!" When I tell them that I didn't have a cell phone when I was their age, they cannot picture in their minds how that could be. I guess it is life in the fast lane. "The times, they are a changing. The more we progess ahead, the further backwards we are." As the MOP on the Portland Service Unit says, "Thanks for Listening."