This morning I had about 20 minutes before leaving for exercise class. So I logged on to my computer hoping to get a few things done. I wanted to check my email, look at Facebook, find things to do on our trip to Kansas City, check the status of an on-line order, review a book for my book group on Amazon, and check my mother's finances as well as my own 403B. There was a glitch in the system, and I found myself waiting impatiently for things to warm up and get going.
I thought about how we take for granted "having the world at our fingertips." It's so easy to stay in touch, send photos and videos, look up information. How eager I was to do all my on-line chores quickly.
In the far distant past, I would write a letter, have photos developed, and send them by snail mail. I would call my friends. I would send away for travel information, reread the book, go to a store to buy shoes, and call the bank for financial updates or wait for statements in the mail. Life in the slow lane.
Life is soooo much easier and faster now with the Internet. Now if it could just pick the green beans and weed the garden...
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Sometimes I am so glad to be on dial-up in Maine. It's so tedious to cruise around really slowly that I end up... picking the green beans and weeding the garden.
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