The Amazing Time Zapper does it again!!
Wow. Zapped again.
It amazes me how I can get on the computer and e-mail, chat, IM, surf or whatever and time just disappears. It goes by at warp speed. They don’t need to worry about traveling into the future- I do it all the time. Only I can’t go back, only forward.
Just checking e-mail can be either a quick trip or it can be a lengthy tour. Then I find things to look up and well before I know it an hour or several hours have gone by depending on how well my tour went and if my tour guide didn’t crash.
Funny thing to is that I spend that time and then get off and try to accomplish something in REAL life- you know the tedious chores that plague us- and I get sucked back in. It starts with the phrase, “Oh I wanted to look up…” or ” I forgot to look up…” and there you are again. How long this journey will take no one knows. If you are lucky someone is standing at the portal waiting to whisk you back through before the portal closes and you are lost in time.
It is amazing that a couple little boxes with some bits and bytes and ram and rom and you get the world. It is even kinda on a string- your mouse cord. Unless you happen to be cordless. Think how much you have just at your finger tips and no paper cuts!
Imagine life before computers. What did we do with ourselves?!!?
I used to get distracted then too.Yes I must admit I am the type that has trouble looking things up the old fashioned way. Perhaps it is dictionary ADD. Or if you prefer ADDd. There are those that also suffer from encyclopedia ADD. ADDe. Yes I suffer from that too. Think how long it took me to get things done. 
Yes I do know that there are dictionaries, encyclopedias and thesaruses online. Lovely things too. Pronounciation and everything.
I do love computers and I am illiterate about them. They work- what more do I need to know? Ok some computer junkie is rolling his eyes now. You really wouldn’t want me to mess with a computer. Believe me.
It is amazing the age we are living in. I shudder to think about what my kids have that is normal and what I grew up with. Or what I didn’t grow up with. A VCR was a big deal. A color TV was a big deal. A working TV was a big deal. Perhaps that is why we are looking at weight issues. We are content to look at a screen to entertainment, work and communication and that is just the short list. I hope I am striking a balance between what needs doing - chores, physical activity with my screen time. I hope my kids will notice that life doesn’t happen in front of a screen.
I said I love computers. I do. I love that I have the ability to communicate around the world with all my friends and family. I like to hear about the little and big things in their lives. Things you didn’t hear about often. Phone calls and letters just didn’t happen. Wasn’t instant communication. There is one thing I do miss. Being able to sit down around a table and visit, play games, eat and enjoy the act of just being together. While I can’t always do that, I will take what I can get. Even if I do end up zapped forward in time.
Now I have to go… the portal is closing.
