Well it's dead. I knew it would happen any day. And it did. I am computer-less. And so now, I'm resorting to occasionally checking my email at the library or at work when I have just a few slow minutes (usually I don't).
And I find that I'm not really comfortable checking the bank stuff or even reading other people's blogs in public places (I'm using my mom's computer right now). So that stuff isn't getting checked as often, which is kind of a pain.
I've learned a couple of things.
1. I'm not freaking out, or crying about it. I am living through it okay. Who knew?
2. I really rely on a computer for "important things", like bill paying, and for church stuff and planning. All this time I thought I only used it for web surfing and blogging.
3. My computer is my source for just about everything: what to make for dinner, checking the news or weather. Finding out how to fix a zipper or a leak or get the rust from the bobby pin off of the bathroom sink (all things that remain a mystery this week, because I have yet to look it up on the computer), when my library books are due, holds, etc. When my meetings are, when Sam's church meeting are, when Ada's girls scout meetings are...the phone number to the pizza place...any phone number. etc, etc.
Even though it's been a pain to get the "important things" done, I'm not in a huge hurry to get a new computer just yet. I'm kind of enjoying the break.
Today I checked my google reader, which said I had 78 posts to read. I do miss being able to take some time to read those posts. I love hearing what my friends and family have to say (and others who I don't know, but am inspired by).
And I checked facebook, and there wasn't much of a difference. Why did I spend so much time on there?
Anyway, that's all for now. I just wanted to explain one of the reasons for my infrequent posting.
I've got to get off this thing and get home.
4 comments:
I totally know what you mean about using it for everything... I use the www's for cooking and fixing and everything else in between (or at least when I can't ask my mom.)
If someone took our computer, or my copy of Mark Bittman's "How to Cooke Everything" I'd be lost. (Oh, and that is where I get most of my ideas for food these days...even if I don;t have all the ingredients, he talks about the science of food I guess, so it's easy to make substitutions.
Love you girl, and so glad you're in for the play date!
I have been amazed lately to realize that we were kind of the last generation to grow up without the internet. I'm 27 and didn't even really see it in action until I was probably 15 or 16. So, 12 years give-or-take to become entirely dependent on technology. It's crazy, right? Our kids will never know what it's like to look something up without Google. They will go up to the attic and dust of the Wii and laugh at our graphics. They will watch Independence Day or Jurassic Park and roll with laughter at the computer animation the "old" people suffered through. It kind of freaks me out.
I don't mean you're "lost" without it, I just got into rant mode. Sometimes I do think it would be better if everything in my house with a chip in it suddenly crashed. Back to turning actual pages and reacquainting ourselves with real “networking.”
And facebook... what a siren that turned out to be. I was really grateful for the people it put me back in touch with, but now I have it on my phone and it makes me wonder if I really need to constantly know whether or not they are on an escalator, eating Panda Express, or getting ready for bed.
Not to mention, the degrees of separation between you and your “friends” seem to increase the longer you have an account. I’m starting to feel “collected” by some of these people.
I can help with the phone number thing. Text "google" with the name of the place and the city and state and they will text you back the number
I thought this exact thing the other day when I was running my my treadmill, listening to my ipod with my baby monitor set up so I could hear the baby and my cell and home phone right next to me so I could get phone calls and the TV remote too. I started thinking, I need to just go outside and acutally get away during my RUN! We are paralyzed by our techy stuff.
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