What, no internet? Arghhhh...

I know I didn't blog last week but I have a great excuse, no really I do. And it's totally technology related. It was my brother's wedding last week so I hightailed it back to England for four days to watch my baby bro marry his girlfriend of ten years. As always, even when "off-duty" and travelling I had my Mac firmly clutched in my hands. Due to inclement weather at Chicago I was delayed at Fort Wayne airport for four hours (oh yes, that is totally the place to be delayed I can tell you), so I made full use of their free wireless, sorting out the usual Blackboard nightmares and the like. Finally I was on the plane to Chicago and then to London. Although I knew I was about to face twenty-four hours sans internet - my mum's cottage is in the depths of the English countryside. She doesn't even have a landline or dial-up internet let alone wireless internet. But the following day I was driving to the beautiful hotel for the wedding. Surely there would be wireless, or at least wired internet there. It is after all a known getaway for the rich and famous city folk in need of a "weekend in the country, dahling". We get to the hotel, a gorgeous manor house in the Cotswolds only to discover that I barely have mobile phone reception and although there is one little computer discretely tucked away in a corner the hotel is computer and internet free. I can feel the slight panic arise whenever I am forced to be without internet and access to the world beyond my immediate but then I remember what I've been telling you all about how we shouldn't and can't rely on technology and so for the first time in a VERY long time I enjoy four days without checking email, without blogging, without updating my podcasts or reading my RSS subscriptions, without having any kind of connection to my laptop. And you know what? It was truly and utterly blissful.
Oh, and the wedding wasn't bad either.