It used to be when you came home from a vacation, you would unpack, do laundry, maybe go grocery shopping, pick up the mail you had stopped delivery on while you were not home.
Nowadays, if you have the Geek Factor in your DNA, there are a host of other things you have to do. Catch up on emails, check your favorite websites since the internet in your hotel was so slow it was as if it were 2005. Imagine! I was behind on reading Tweets and watching Tweeted videos and various other social networking chores.
The argument can be made that these machines that seem to make things easier for us simply add things to our daily “To Do” list. But I lived in a world where we had no cell phones or computers or any of the other things we keep clipped to our bodies these days. And I wouldn’t go back for all the leftover pay phone change in the world.