As a kid when the power went out it was always a good time...We'd get the candles and pretend we were living before electricity was invented. Thursday during a big storm our power went out, and for some reason it wasn't near as cool as I remembered it being.
Probably because my son couldn't watch his Elmo DVD, I couldn't check project status and other misc. on the web, and it made me start to wonder. How long do I think I would make it in a world without electricity. The answer is not to frickin' long.
My day (as well as millions of other people's)completely revolves around a computer. I check my personal email every morning, it's the first thing I do when I get up. Then it is on to see if I have landed any freelance work, next to MySpace (both mine and The Chesterfield's) and you get my point. By the time I get to work at 8:00, I have already been on the computer for about an hour, and I am on the computer for another 8 hours at work! After work, I go home and typically spend up to 3 hours on the computer there, updating websites, learning programs, and trying to find work.
In light of it all I think I am going to proclaim one week this year where I have no computer, no electricity, just me and mother nature. I might just plan a trip to Niobrara...Scratch that, I definitely am.
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