Withdrawal from Puter 'ING' !?!

My puter is FINALLY back up and running! AGAIN~ with the computer problems! Jee Whizzzzzz, why didn't I become a puter tech? Then I could fix my own as well as others and maybe I'd be vacationing in Hawaii, Jamaica or somewhere warm right now.



So, I don't have a puter working and all of a sudden I get stuff done that's been sitting around my house for months. What does that tell you? It tells me that I spend WAY too much time on this thing. I research stuff almost constantly and love it. Give me a topic and I'll search the entire Internet for any and all information and take a look at all the views of that topic until it's fully dissected. I'm relentless. My hubby said he's never seen anyone read as much as I do. What he doesn't know is that I look at a lot of pictures and watch a lot of videos too, but lets just let him think I'm his studious intellectual little wife, k?



Of late, I've been trying to find a hobby. Yup, here I am in my fifty's and I'm trying to figure out what I like to do. I've always been the type who loves working outside in the midst of nature and playing with our animals so now, since I'm unable to do much of that stuff anymore, I've got to find another hobby,... other than spending all my free time surfing the world on this little machine that sits on my lap like my precious little child. When the power plug broke on the laptop I think I actually went through a withdrawal. It went something like this;

"I want to go see if my kids put any more pictures up on facebook,..OH, I can't!...the laptop"... 1/2 hour or so goes by, "I'd better see what the weather is going to be doing this weekend",..."OH, I can't cuz the laptop isn't working". Not even an hour goes by and I remember that I didn't log in my time for my tiny job. I run to go do that... on the laptop and..."OH! I can't...."



It went like this for days until I FINALLY got it ingrained into my brain that I'm going to have to get these things done the 'old fashioned' way instead of depending on my laptop and the web for EVERYTHING! There are so many people that I probably wouldn't talk to for months or possibly even years if I didn't have the access to the web. But I believe I'm not alone here, am I? One thing that really shows how dependant I am is that now when I go to read my Bible, I also have the laptop beside me because I simply love to research the verses and other peoples perspective on a specific topic, on the Internet.



We certainly do things differently these days. But if it weren't for these little technological wonders, we all would be a little less informed, a little less connected with friends and family and a LOT less able to voice our, sometimes biased, but interesting opinions to so many people at one time.



What would you all be doing right now if you didn't have your computers and the Internet? How would you be using that time? Something to think about.