And so on and so forth.

We've recently started playing Monopoly again. We bought the most recent version, Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition, which doesn't have Monopoly money. Instead, each player receives their own credit card and the game comes with a machine that does all your calculations for you. Sort of like a mini-calculator except the buttons are different. Everything is changing. Everything is becoming automated. I blame my horrible math skills on calculators, computers and my genes but mainly on the first two. If I had put my mind to it and tried harder, I would have probably been a lot better at it but I never really did except to pass at school and I'm happy the way I am now - bad math skills and all.

But think about it:

Your camera does everything for you automatically. God forbid that people would have to deal with manual settings. You turn on the TV to watch the weather people tell you what you could figure out instead of actually knowing on your own. You spend more time watching television with your kids than spending time reading with them. You take your car to your neighbors' house instead of walking. You put all your music into your iPod instead of listening to a whole album you just happily bought at the store and couldn't wait to play. And so on and so forth.

And we wonder why our human asses are getting bigger?

Anywaaaaay...

I'm hungry now so I'll go order a pizza instead of taking the time to make something. ;)