Google is my frenemy

It's always a comfort when you go to Google something random and you are reassured that you aren't the first person to wonder.

Like "Does Dolly Parton sing the jingle for the new Sonic commercial?"  According to Yahoo, the answer is no, but I'm not convinced.

It truly is an amazing thing we have at our fingertips: the internet.  I was well-versed in computers as a child.  Growing up we didn't have a television; my parents were, um, wayyyyy conservative (to put it mildly).  We got our first computer when I was 9, making the year 1993.  It was an Intel 486 that ran Windows 3.1.  I could write DOS prompts in no time!  It's rare that I think back to those days of playing games like Xargon and The Secret Of Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, but every time I do I'm amazed at how far we've come from a day when we had to tell a computer to

C> A:
A> dir

when you wanted to access the files on a floppy (wow!) disk.

So now, not even 20 years later, anytime I wonder the answer to some off the wall question, I reach for what I like to call "My Handy-Dandy Googler."  I can even remember the first cell phone I had (as I'm sure many of you can also) and the BlackBerry I use today is light years ahead of that old Motorola v400, even though Wikipedia states...

"For a phone of that year {2002} it is surprisingly advanced, with a 640x480 pixel camera amongst other features."

...and, yes, it really was quite advanced.  Now, I don't remember the first text message I ever sent from a cell phone, or even who my very first call was to (or from).  All I know is sometimes I wish we could all go back to a day where when we needed to tell someone something we would...

A) Call them at home, and if that failed,
B) Go to their house, and if that failed,
C) Go back home and wait for them to call you back.

Before the days of Angry Birds, Words With Friends, and FaceTime; smartphones, tablets, and eReaders; what did we ever do while waiting at the doctor's office??  What did we do to pass the time??  We thought.  We imagined.  We read.  We talked.  We made memories that didn't include net lingo like LOL and BRB, BITFOB and BTWITIAILWY (omg rly?!)

But you know what?

If you took away my BlackBerry, my iPad, my MacBook Pro, and my Nook, I'd probably die of boredom.