No, not the kind Jim is suffering from. I’ve done that one many times and just about consider myself a pro at that…
No, the kind of withdrawal I’m talking about is the kind most of my readers (all three of you) would likely all suffer from. Withdrawal from the Internet.
On my as of yet still unwritten about vacation, GF and I went to Arizona to visit our grandparents. My grandmother lives outside of Tucson, and her grandparents live outside of Phoenix. We spent half the time with each. My incredible 95-year-old grandmother does not have a computer. And although GF brought her laptop, we just didn’t have the interest in using a dialup and we suffered through 5 days without any Internet access.
I missed it, but I really needed to “unplug” and I’m glad I did. On the 5th day, we went back up to her grandparent’s house. Her grandmother has and uses her computer frequently, but I wasn’t even tempted. But then a funny thing happened. Shortly after we arrived at GF’s grandparents, my dear GF, who has up until this point only ever had a passing interest in blogs, reported to me that “Helen got her visa.”
Congrats Helen – you have a new lurker! Oh, and congrats on the visa too!
Thanks to both Clancy and his lovely GF!
I was going to call out an APB on you if you hadn't come back by today (for some reason you March 1 post didn't show on my site).
But you're back, so I will stand down the Mounties (I know-I could have just called the blog police. But Mounties are just cool).
Posted by: Helen at March 3, 2004 1:03 AMIt's always good to unplug, even if only for a short while (says he hypocritically, currently being online on 3 computers at once)
And Helen, they have blog police? I'm not sure whether that's cool or scary.
Posted by: Rob at March 3, 2004 4:01 AMWhat is this offline that you speak of? The term both confuses and frightens me.
Posted by: Jim at March 3, 2004 7:08 PM