Yes, I have to admit that I have too many gadgets. They are supposed to make life easier, but I find myself struggling to spend the time to make them do their job. My main example involves phones.

I have several phones scattered around the house that are linked to a main unit in the study. They have a wonderful feature (as do most phones now) that allows the user to program in numbers and ease not only the difficulty of remembering numbers (apparently, this is a real hardship in today's society), but also coupled with caller ID can have different rings for different people. Unfortunately, I haven't taken the time to program the system to do this. I have numbers scattered all over: home phones, cellphone, Palm pilot, documents on the computer... I can connect them to the computer and do it that way. Should be easy, right? I can't tell you if it is or not, because I haven't done it. I have a few programmed on the home phone so I can know in particular if certain people are calling. One person who calls frequently has a special ring that tells me that Annie should answer the phone, another has a ring that tells me... well, that I need to be the one to answer the phone. That's two. My cellphone ring is Tom Sawyer by Rush. It takes so much space in memory that that is the only ring I have on there. I downloaded a piece of shareware to break the songs I want into smaller pieces and therefore have several. Have I done it? Nope.

I think I need an intern.

Hello? Who's this?