I always thought Fonzi was so cool, especially with how he could just bang things with his fist and turn on lights or juke boxes, or break tables, or unlock things.  But I was wondering… if the Fonz lived in our day, how would he manage dealing with computers.  Can you imagine the Fonz updating his Facebook status?  What would he say?  Something cool for sure.  I doubt it would be, “Fonzi is tired”.  By the way, that’s always one of my favorite ones to read.  There would probably be a lot of “ayyyyyyy’s”, with a few “Exactamundo’s” and “Sit on it’s!” mixed in.

The event that triggered this wondering happened yesterday when I had both the boys at home with me, Gramm, my 1 year old, and Jaxon my 6 year old.  I’m busy working on my laptop on the couch, and Gramm climbed up on the chair at my desk and was playing with the keyboard and mouse that goes to our computer.  I thougth… “he’s not screaming… just let him play and enjoy the rare few minutes of quietness…  What’s the worst that can happen??”  Sidebar: Never ask that question.  Nothing good ever comes from asking that question.

So a few minutes later I’m still working… enjoying the quiet… and then I hear voices, which I realize are coming from the computer that Gramm is “working on”.  I look up, and Gramm is watching the movie Apollo 13 on my computer, and in full screen mode nonetheless.  I said, “Gramm, what you doing???” half forgetting that he can’t talk yet.  I didn’t even know we had Apollo 13 on our computer.  My oldest, Jaxon, is standing behind him watching also now.  I asked Jaxon, “How did he do that?” hoping that he might have seen what Gramm did to play the movie.  Jaxon replied with, “I’ll fix it,” and takes over the drivers seat from Gramm.  That wasn’t exactly the response I was expecting, but figured as long as there is still no screaming, I’ll just go with it, and get back to working on my stuff.

Again, a few minutes later, I decide to check on Jaxon to see how he’s doing, and to see if there is any smoke coming from my computer.  When I get over there, Jaxon says, “Daddy, look what I did!”  I’m always surprised at what I see after I hear that.  So I look, and this time there is a slide show playing, also in full screen, of our family pictures.  Many of the pictures I didn’t even know we had, but just lots of random pictures from different times and places.  I said, “Jaxon, that’s cool.  How did you do that?”  He replies, “I just banged on all these letters here.”

So I guess if the Fonz was living in our day of technology, that’s probably what he would be like.  Just banging on a keyboard and having things like Apollo 13 and family slideshows start right up.