The years just seem to be flying by. I still sometimes write the wrong year on checks and other documents.
To think that I have lived through a period of time when during my younger years there was no such thing as a cellular phone, color TV, satellites, GPS, Walkman, electronic calculators, computers, Apple, Microsoft, CNN, MSNBC, the variety of games, and the internet, just to mention a few.
It makes me realize just how much everything, including our little community, has changed.
You know, I don’t recall my friends asking for $300 dollar games for Christmas either. My best times were playing cowboys and Indians and building toy log cabins.
My most favorite was the Lionel train set I use to play with for hours.
I wish I still had those items today. They are worth a pretty penny to collectors.
The technology has evolved in every aspect of our lives.
It doesn’t matter if you’re into farming, flying or fishing. It all has to do in one way or another with technology.
Even with me writing this editorial. I’m sitting at my desk typing on the keyboard in my word processing program. After it’s done, I simply upload it to our internet server. From there anyone on the internet can view it 24 hours a day seven days a week.
Not only does it go on the internet at www.seymourherald.com but it also is set up ready for our Art Director, Nathan Bailey, to put it in the print edition for print.
Since we have our own newspaper presses here, I have gone in the plant and yelled, “Stop the presses” because of a late breaking story.
That is always fun to do.
The main point I am looking to get across during this wonderful season is the fact that you don’t need to buy an expensive, high-tech gadget.
Yes, giving is better than getting, but the reason for the season is not who can spend the most money.
Generation before us lived fine without all that we have today. As a matter of fact, some would say they lived much better.
But I won’t get into that now.
Michele and I would like to wish everyone a most Merry Christmas and the Happiest of all New Years.
We have certainly enjoyed reporting, recording, covering and printing the past many years of Seymour and are looking forward to many more years.
Sincerely,
Joseph Karl
Publisher