{"id":512,"date":"2018-10-23T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:06:21","slug":"reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reluctantly APPed #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I avoided getting a smart phone. Well into the current millennia I used the reliable flip phone. It didn&#8217;t alert me to texts (there weren&#8217;t no stinkin&#8217; texts) or when anything needed to be upgraded. It made calls, It <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"517\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/flip-phone-in-hand\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_3848825_s-2015_FlipPhone.jpg?fit=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"333,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;unknown&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Flip phone in hand, isolated on white background&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1178070331&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;39&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Flip phone in hand&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Flip phone in hand\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_3848825_s-2015_FlipPhone.jpg?fit=333%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-517 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_3848825_s-2015_FlipPhone.jpg?resize=111%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Boring flip phone\" width=\"111\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_3848825_s-2015_FlipPhone.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_3848825_s-2015_FlipPhone.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 111px) 85vw, 111px\" \/>received calls. I laughed smugly at all those people glued to their Blackberrys and iPhones. I mourned for all those lost conversations when people sat across the table from friends and spent their time texting. I glared at those who unthinkingly knocked people on the sidewalk while playing Candycrush.<\/p>\n<p>Then\u2014through no fault of my own\u2014I received a smart phone.<\/p>\n<p>Now I too have apps. Now I text and I check the news and I look things up, yes, even once in a while as I sit at the table with friends. I am a bad <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"515\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_apps\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?fit=393%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"393,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?fit=393%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-515 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?resize=119%2C151&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apps, apps, and more apps\" width=\"119\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?w=393&amp;ssl=1 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 85vw, 119px\" \/>person.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 My favorite apps are pretty boring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weather\u2014Yes, just like many very interesting people, I have an affinity for weather is. I check my phone for weather sometimes even when I could look out the window. But I don&#8217;t just check my <em>own<\/em> weather. I also check where my mom lives in Iowa, my in-laws&#8217; home in Chicago, Fort Worth weather for my family in Texas, and any number of other places of interest (do you know the temperature is right now in West Yellowstone, WY? I do!). Weather is an important part of my daily routine. (Oh. My. God. I&#8217;m <em>old<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li>News\u2014Okay, I admit to being a news junkie. I probably check the news a dozen times a day to read what I could also find out on the TV or radio. It satisfies some need in me that I wish I could get rid of.<\/li>\n<li>Google\u2014Despite disliking Google intensely, I still find it the easiest way to find out all kinds of useless, trivial information. We can be watching a show on TV. Jack will say, &#8220;We have seen that actress before.&#8221; I pull out the phone, look up the show we are watching and the episode, find the cast, find the particular character, link to her, and recite the shows that person has been in until we recognize where we have seen her. Meanwhile, I have missed the last five minutes of the actual program.<\/li>\n<li>Google Maps\u2014What good is hearing about a location of a murder on an Investigation Discovery program if I can&#8217;t conveniently see for myself where that place is?<\/li>\n<li>Solitaire\u2014I can&#8217;t help it, I play this mindless game whenever I am bored. If <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"516\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/woman-gaming-cards-on-phone-in-the-park\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 60D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;lifestyle concept: young woman with solitaire app on phone at the park. All screen graphics are made up. 3D generated.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1312238233&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;woman gaming cards on phone in the park&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"woman gaming cards on phone in the park\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-516 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?resize=162%2C108&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The ubiquitous Solitaire\" width=\"162\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 85vw, 162px\" \/>I had to give up all apps, this is the one I would go of last. I am a sad, sad person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, so now you know my secret life. Don&#8217;t judge me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Read the next blog in the blog hop by going <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrw52week.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nomadauthors.com\/deesknight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dee<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2q7ovi4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Only a Good Man Will Do<\/a>: Seriously ambitious man seeks woman to encourage his goals, support his (hopeful) position as Headmaster of Westover Academy, and be purer than Caesar&#8217;s wife. Good luck with that!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2q7Jp0S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naval Maneuvers<\/a>: When a woman requires an earth-shattering crush of pleasure to carry her away, she can&#8217;t do better than to call on the US Navy. Sorry, Marines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I avoided getting a smart phone. Well into the current millennia I used the reliable flip phone. It didn&#8217;t alert me to texts (there weren&#8217;t no stinkin&#8217; texts) or when anything needed to be upgraded. It made calls, It received calls. I laughed smugly at all those people glued to their Blackberrys and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reluctantly APPed #MFRWauthor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,252,246,8,106,12,25,245,249,250,251,253,104,254,7,244,247,248],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-app","tag-blackberry","tag-cell-phone","tag-dee-s-knight","tag-erotic","tag-erotic-romance","tag-erotic-romance-author","tag-flip-phone","tag-google-app","tag-google-maps","tag-growing-old","tag-iphone","tag-naval-maneuvers","tag-only-a-good-man-will-do","tag-romance","tag-smart-phone","tag-solitaire","tag-weather-app"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-8g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}