I Survived Without It

I am a technology nut. Just today at lunch I was feeling up a new iPad at the Apple store. That is one sweet device. The picture to the left is my blog on an iPad.

With my PC and iPhone I am plugged in to the Internet during most of my waking hours. I follow news, sports, weather, the markets and converse with friends and family via email and Facebook and my blog.

This may sound hectic but I find comfort in this connectivity.

But last Friday I had to surrender my technology to the old and ancient customs of golf. You see all electronic devices including phones and rangefinders and pagers and even cameras are banned from the golf course.

It felt strange at first….like I was holding my breath under water.

Did the miners get out of West Virginia alive? What is the temperature? Damn I can’t use my Masters app for the iPhone. What did the market do today? What…did someone say a plane went down with the president of Poland?

I got up so early and in so late that I didn’t have time to catch up with the world until this morning.

The world kept turning without me. I’ll be damn.

8 comments:

Coffeypot said...

We've come a long way, baby. Remember a typewriter and mimeograph sheets? Me either!

Rock Chef said...

Resist, resist...

Phfrankie Bondo said...

...I want an iPad!! I want an iPad!!!...

Ken said...

A mans got to know, what a man wants to know, when he wants to know it.

Reggie Hunnicutt said...

I will have an iPad. I saw where some AV nerds installed one in a car instrument panel with amps and such.

terri said...

I'd love to be connected at all times. It's become frowned on at work to browse the internet for news and such. I always leave early and am usually on the go when I get home, so I often feel very uninformed.

Jay Gray said...

I only spent 8-9 hours technology-less with you. At first it is scary, but in the end, it was so relaxing.

I am a habitual iPhone checker. I will take my iPhone out of my pocket at least 7-8 times an hour just to make sure my ears didn't miss the ding of a text or my pocket didn't vibrate for a phone call.

I worry I will miss out on the world, but in reality as you said, the world goes on without me.

I would love to have someone force me to put my phone in timed safe for a period of time, at least once every few weeks so that I could have a vacation from the technology I love so much.

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