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Just to fill you in on what you missed. Trump is a blowhard idiot and Clinton is the biggest crook ever. And that just about covers everything you missed.
It is great to take a break from all of this. Good for you.
Totally relate. There is an angst created, at least initially, when I don't have access. Down here the internet is slow at best in the mountains, and sometimes its out for a week or more at a time, no reasons given by the provider. As an addict, the need initially like one needing the drug, and then the sigh, the welcome exhale of relief when finally regaining access...I would not want to do it. I read paper copy of stuff like Atlantic but otherwise all my news comes from the internet, and has for years. A few weeks back I watched a cable news show with my daughter, it was awful, how was I ever a cable news junky? I tried for about 6 months to get back into what had been a decades habit of reading the Sunday NYT's front to back, OMG a lot of weeks that thing looks like it was produced and written by college kids, WTF happened? Seriously, the Sunday Times has at best 40% of the useful content it had back in the 90's.
Two days away from the internet is all I would be up to, after that I start feeling out of sorts.
I work as a System's Admin and have to keep my phone with me all the time 24/7 in the event a site goes down. I take at least one big wilderness backpacking / fishing / climbing trip out west every summer so that I can have a week or so in the wilderness without any cell coverage at all. In fact, as I am usually 2 to 4 days walk from the nearest road, I am completely unreachable. Which I love.
Sounds nice. I'll be taking a trip with my family next week to the beach and I think I am going to take your advice.
I think there is also benefit in cutting yourself off from the news in general for a few days. Yes, it is important to be in touch with what is happening around the world but it is ok, even beneficial, to take a break from it now and then.
Hello friends,
I just got back from a small vacation to southern California for about 10 days and during that entire time, I did not even once look on the internet for anything except to see if any local festivals were going on. I did not even bring my computer.
I highly recommend it.
I rented a rowboat on Lake Daley(sp) and got a nice workout while catching a few uprooted plants from the lake bottom with my fishing line,
Went to the beach and watched in awe at five very confident and happy plump young ladies wore bikinis and enjoyed their day in the sun,
Ate all kinds of good Japanese food I cannot find here in East Texas,
watched furry little critters scamper around the hills at night with my UV flashlight,
and....and...did I mention, not once looked at anything usually associated with the internet during this whole time.
No flame wars, trolls, intellectual snobbery, personal attacks, or things like that.
I highly recommend everyone take a week off from the internet at least once every few months for their mental health.
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Just to fill you in on what you missed. Trump is a blowhard idiot and Clinton is the biggest crook ever. And that just about covers everything you missed.
It is great to take a break from all of this. Good for you.
Hello friends,
I just got back from a small vacation to southern California for about 10 days and during that entire time, I did not even once look on the internet for anything except to see if any local festivals were going on. I did not even bring my computer.
funny getting all defensive over nonspecific general comments.
Pretty sure he was being sarcastic. "reporting" you for not being on the internet.
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