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Yoga today! And I'm on my way! Tomorrow will be a Pilates day! Hey, hey, hey! Felt good to restart the program. I've gained a little weight and lost some of my strength and tone over the past few months. Now, I'm back on track. I felt really good this afternoon after yoga, lunch and green tea latte!

Came home from yoga session and tasty rice bowl of sesame chicken and started figuring out the hands free, Bluetooth, wireless device. It linked up to the phone and I can "hear" the phone and communicate with it from anywhere in the house (and probably up the street). The phone software is magical--I speak and it translates (very accurately), enters the spoken words onto the screen, and follows any action commands that I speak. I can't help but wonder what this innocuous device might be doing to my brain, but it's fun to use. The device "whispers" into your ear whatever audio the phone is emitting. Usually, the phone goes mute while this is taking place--no ease dropping allowed.

I had a thought the other day, as I slogged through getting the phone up and running, that Smartphones are very similar to an old gag item--the pet rock. With pet rocks, you simulated feeding and caring for the rock as if it were alive. The Smartphone ups all that to a higher level. You actually have to feed and care for the device (give it data, upload Apps, install features, purge old files to make room for the new, increase its memory chips, and so on) to keep it going. Plus, unlike pet rocks, the Smartphone is always watching how you are doing things with it and modifying its behavior to accommodate your changes. Pet rock goes digital!

Quiet here today. Everyone is recovering from my nephew-in-law's visit and the faded (now) holiday events. All quiet on the Gerhardt front (and back) except for the unheard whispers of the Bluetooth communications. Let there be noiseless noise!