When I get up here in Alaska, sleeping in a bunkhouse with a bunch of guys, fishing every chance I get, talking to everyone, eating when I can, showering every couple of days, and brushing my teeth occasionally, I forget to do things that aren’t part of the fishing camp experience. I need to take my Parkinson’s medication every 6 hours, but I forget, that isn’t a good thing. I have a pill box for each day with four little boxes under each day with a pill in each box. I have a weird alarm on my phone that goes off every six hours, reminding me to take a pill. I also want to read my Bible every day, write my blog every day, work on memory verses every day, call Patty every day, pray every day, read every day in my book, and write every day on sermons and lessons that I am working on. So, I have this App on my phone that I can put each thing I want to do in it, and it will flash a reminder for me on my phone screen every couple of hours or however I set it. When I get one of the things done, I touch the reminder on my phone screen, and it doesn’t flash again until the next day. After noon it flashes every hour; after 5:00 pm, it flashes every thirty minutes; and after 9:00, it flashes every 15 minutes. So with all that flashing, it is hard to forget what I am supposed to do. It is a handy little tool, and I don’t have much excuse for not completing the essential things. I carry my phone in my pocket, and people notice my phone screen and camera flash going off and they remind me too. It is tough getting old, but it is easier to remember to do things that I used to forget because of technology.

What would be cool is if my phone would listen to my conversations and when I started talking stupid it would start flashing and if I kept it up sirens would go off.