Okay, not exactly before time, but pre-1980 in many ways....Having moved into a new place a month ago, then promptly leaving town, coming home with a sinus infection and now book promo and author events, there are a few basics I am still living without.
I have been sans cable and internet for a month. I am writing this post from my parents' family room, where every few days I show up with my lap top and check my email and do other internet things here. It's getting a little old. I've never been a big computer/internet person, in fact most days I check my email and immediately get off the internet, but I have become dependent on email as no one sends snail mail anymore. Especially in promoting my book, it is so much easier to send out press releases through the internet, mass emails to friends and co-workers about my book and events and for them to R.s.v.p. to me via email rather than catching me on the phone.
Cable, on the other hand, other than the crystal clear picture, I haven't missed as much. I am going through CNN-withdrawl and I love me my Bravo TV and Queer Eye and Project Runway. I work until 9 p.m. most nights and even on my "days off" from work I am working on my books, so I don't watch that much television. I go through spurts and I know having cable, I will watch more TV. Without cable, there's not much to choose from, I listen to more CDs, I read more books, I go to bed earlier!
A few more weeks without internet or cable and my "to do" projects may get done (the garage, the bathroom) my next novel may actually get finished and all my friends may start getting handwritten notes on hand-stamped stationary again. Hmmmm, the land before time may not be such a bad place after all. People lived without cable TV and internet for roughly 6,000 years, I can probably due to live without it a few more months myself.
Grace & Peace
CAA
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