laptops are the new shoe boxes

After this blog post, I was inspired to get out my old laptop and find the photos I took of the hot air balloons that I saw from the window of my previous apartment. The pictures aren't that great compared to the real thing, but I wanted to share it with you anyway. They brought me many smiles on those mornings. I played around with some textures and layers in Photoshop to make them look a tad more interesting.



While I was looking through the files in my old laptop, I came across all sorts of stuff like photos and chat transcripts from my university days. The kind of things that bring back a rush of memories, mostly with friends (and crushes!) who I hardly see anymore. Makes me wonder how much we have shifted from storing memories in the form of sentimental letters and photographs kept in old shoe boxes under the bed, to having them stored digitally on the computer. Sure, we still like to keep "real" items, but that doesn't mean that we don't laugh and cringe just as much when we look at the digital files. Perhaps in the future, when our grandchildren learn about us, instead of discovering a stack of vintage letters and diaries, they'll discover a folder of saved emails and blog entries.

P.S. You may notice that I'm now offering an ad space on my side bar. I'm trying it out through Project Wonderful, so if you're interested, you can have your ad here by paying a mere cent or two. Cheap!