My House of Ink

When sending your son or daughter off to live on their own at their first year of college, it can be a time of high emotions – and I’m talking about the parents. Just like when you broke down into tears on their first day of kindergarten, parting from your child will always be a heart-wrenching experience. But don’t panic, part of being able to rest assured that you’ve sent them away fully prepared is to make sure they have all the essential tools to survive on their own.

You’ll want to start off with the basics they’ll need for school. A computer, printer, paper, toner printer cartridge, pens and pencils and so on are the fundamentals to an organized education. After their schoolwork supplies are covered, it’s time to focus on bedding and bath. Comfy sheets, pillows, blankets and towels will keep them soft, fresh and clean. Slap a few rock-band posters on the wall and call it a day. 

It’s hard to image the primitive years. Life without technology moved at a much slower pace. Letters, Morse code, the telegraph, none of these advancements of the early 1900s can even begin to compete with the computers, printers and micro-chip technology we have today. But how could they? Things progress in a pattern of advancement, one idea spurs from the pervious one. And thus, here we are in the 21st century feeling like kings with our pioneered technology.

With all the products the brainchilds of our millennium have given us, it’s fascinating to encounter a person who it completely perplexed by technology. I witnessed my apartment office manager try to make copies of a flyer for a neighborhood barbeque last Saturday and the experience was riveting. Print. Print, print – why isn’t this working? Maybe because the flashing red light is trying to tell you that you’re out of Xerox toner cartridges.