Multitasking in the Park by CarbonNYC
Why, why, why, you ask?
Why put down the CrackBerry?
Why unplug for a whole 2 days?
Instead of answering you in the comments, you get a whole post in reply.
And away we go…
Top 5 reasons to put it down and walk away:
- Anything I need, other than food, water, hygiene, extracurricular activities, sleep, shelter, and Megan, I have to get away from sometimes.
- As my fearless leader pointed out on her trip to the White House: Do I experience it or do I shoot it (with a camera)? I don’t want to spend so much time with my Tweeps and FB friends that I forget what real live humans are like. Especially since I only know like 3 of them here in CO and the others are so damn nice… I don’t want to ALWAYS be the asshole with the BlackBerry in my hand.
- Megan’s schedule stinks. We don’t have any days off together. Now, I work from home, so that means we see each other WAY more than we would if I didn’t or if, let’s say, she were in the military. But what we don’t get is a whole day together to go on a day trip, or a weekend trip or just do a project around the house together. Ever. Unless one of us takes a day off. So when one of us does, as I did, take a couple of days to focus on her and us, I don’t want to be all distracted by my information addiction.
- I communicate a LOT. With people I’ve known since Kindergarten to people I’ve never even met in real life. I communicate via email, text, phone, Twitter, FB, this blog… sometimes, I want to communicate with the person standing in front of me. It’s hard to peek around the BB I’m holding up in front of my face.
- The world didn’t blow up without me. I know, I’m VERY important. But it didn’t. All of my clients continued to function, FB probably didn’t even note my absence, and the earth, miraculously, continued to spin.
Good enough for you? No? Yes?
Totally excellent reasons…posted from my iPhone….
[...] My biggest problem is my BlackBerry. [...]
Not having a day off together would suck. Who cares if you work at home. You still have to work. And that could be more frustrating than if you wer away from home because you have to see her and know you can’t go out and do things.