June 7, 2001
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If I haven’t posted anything for a day or two, it’s usually because life has been busy with other things that are simply more important than staring at a sheet of pixels. In a way this was true yesterday as our household launched our first ever Wireless Wednesday. No computer. No radio. No television. No geiger counters. You see, my friend Sean, who has two precocious, tech-savvy daughters about the same age as mine, mentioned that his family had made Wednesdays No Electronics Day at their house. My wife and I thought that it sounded like a dandy way to chisel the kids (and me) off the computer for at least one day a week. So we did it. I have to admit that I did feel the urge to jot something down in my Newton more than once. But, I stood firm, relinquished the collapsable stylus, and instead plastered yellow sticky notes all over it, reminding me to enter the data in the morning. The first Wireless Wednesday went off with only a bit of minor grumbling from the short folk. Minor, due to the fact that they still have school during the day. Come July, we’ll have to see whether this forced freedom from technology becomes a positive habit unto itself or a perpetual battle of wills. If nothing else, I caught up on some light reading last night.
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