simply complicated

Staying Connected
July 17, 2008

Jimmy Buffett has a wonderful song called Simply Complicated that explains how your life can follow this oxymoron. With the Wisconsin trip I realized exactly how simply complicated out lives have become thanks to technology. Road trips are not for the faint of heart anymore. It was a 6 day trip but we needed more than clothes! We needed my husband's laptop, our iPod Touch, the Sony Clié, two cell phones, the digital camera (Canon), the battery charger and all the wires and adapters plus a huge bag to carry them in! We can download, upload, blog, email, take pictures, chat and entertain ourselves all from the comforts of our vehicle, motel room or our kids home at the drop of a hat. We have our entire contact list, genealogy database and mapping system at our fingertips. Heck we don't even have to chat with them in person or face to face if we don't want too because we can simply use Yahoo chat or IM but more important we can chat with them while en route in real time. You just have to love wireless internet connections :) So our lives are simply complicated with all this technology but what it really allows us to do is stay in touch with those who mean the most to us.

When we are on the road things continue much the same as at home as far as technology goes, less for surfing and more for information seeking. We no longer have to scout out telephone booths or use those paper maps, even though we still use the maps on occasion. En route we can push a button to be sure we are on the correct course complete with detours. We can be a couple of hundred kilometers away from an attraction yet still get information to decide if we want to stop. We can book a motel room online while we are traveling so we know know there's a room waiting for us when we get there. We can check restaurant reviews before stopping. With a push of a button we can let our kids know we arrived safely at our destination. What's really neat is with a click of a button we can simply share. So yes our lives are simply complicated but in a good way for the most part :)

Enjoy!

Garden Gnome
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Garden Gnome
©2006-2008