Vacation

I was on vacation all last week and did not have access to the Internet. You know what? I didn’t really miss it either. We went on our annual beach vacation with friends of ours. Four adults, three teens, and three older children, all of whom spend a large part of their time connected to the world wide web. At first when we found out that we no longer had Internet access at the beach house we were renting, the same house we’d rented the year before, I thought there would be a mutiny. By the end of the week, I expected our little society to fall apart, like in Lord of the Flies. However, after the first couple of days, I didn’t even hear the kids complaining about the lack of connectivity. Matt did sneak off to the local McDonald’s, which offered WIFI access, so that he could put out a report for work, a task he said would only take ten minutes. When he didn’t return after two hours, I began to worry. Turns out he had to pay $3 for access, so he spent sometime checking out his favorite website–the official website of the Chicago Bears. When I asked if he had checked our home email, he said he didn’t think of that. Where are his priorities!!! Read more »