Fear Not the Take Over of the Machines

With no idea what I was going to blog about today I finally sat down for the first time today — I don’t count driving the car in crazy Christmas traffic sitting.  I opened my computer and up popped not just one but two calendar reminder messages with a little alarm clock icon that read “Christmas Eve tomorrow.”  No Shit.  Does my computer think I don’t know that today is the eve of Christmas Eve?  I am no longer worried that machines are going to take over the world.

My computer should know from the lists I have been writing to see who has been naughty and who has been nice that I am in full on Christmas preparation.  If the Google searching for the right gifts is not evidence then the Pintrest pinnings in “Christmas Dinner ideas” should scream loud and clear “I am working on the holiday.”

The food searches for gingerbread and Yorkshire pudding and my computer, if it were truly intelligent, would hint that something big was up since I have not looked at a carb recipe in months.  But no, the machine feels the need to remind me.

Perhaps she feels neglected since I spent all day Saturday hand writing out 300 Christmas cards.  There is a lot to be said for e-mailing cards.  My computer probably liked the year we sent a Jib-jab card with Russ, Carter and me in full-blown Afro’s disco dancing across the screen to some Christmas jingle.  I like to change it up and send a real card every once in a while, but my computer certainly felt neglected that day.

Maybe my computer was worried I had missed the Christmas is coming hints from the 15,673 marketing e-mails from every store within a 300 mile radius and every online retailer I ever order from since I deleted them as fast as they were clogging up my inbox.

I got it, tomorrow’s Christmas Eve.  The presents are mostly wrapped, the Christmas Eve dinner is half cooked, the church service is on the calendar so dear computer no need to remind me again.  I’m interested to know if you are going to remind me tomorrow that the next day is Christmas.