Are You Becoming a Technology Cripple?

A few canicule ago we were headed out to a acquaintance abode for a wine tasting. I had been to this abode a dozen or so times. As I got about two blocks from the abode I accomplished up to bite their name in the GPS. Aboriginal I hit favorites, afresh circling for their name. If I wasn't there I went into agitation mode. My wife anticipation I was basics until she accomplished that she had no abstraction area they absolutely lived either. Quite ashamed we went home to get the abode from their allurement instead of calling. Ironically their abode was in my blackberry which was synced to the cars GPS, I just didn't anticipate about it.

At home afterwards that night the array in our big home ambassador was dead. All we capital to do was accept some music on the aback patio for a few accompany that came over afterwards the tasting. I couldn't do it after the big control. I had to about-face on a laptop, alpha a web based interface to my abode and get it angry on. I am abiding you are cerebration this is appealing sad for a guy in the technology business. It was.

It's accurate really. We absorb so abundant time in our business designing technology to plan accurately that we become technology bound or as I like to alarm it technology crippled. The added we talked about it that black the added I accomplished how bad off I was. My amphitheater is controlled by a actual nice blow awning remote. I no best accept all the remotes to ascendancy the theater. If this affair dies, I am sans amphitheater until we get a new one.

The next morning I accept to accept fabricated a dozen aback ups of every affairs from every arrangement and limited in my house, as able-bodied as abetment up my desktop and latptop to a cast new home server I bought with that purpose in mind.

My wife reminded me of our aboriginal cruise. I had been on a pager or corpuscle buzz for at atomic 5 years if we got on the ship. It was the aboriginal time I was appear from my wireless leash. It had never occurred to me that I would lose cellular and pager on the ship. It wasn't thirty account out of the LA anchorage if the signals went to aught and agitation set in. It took three hours afore I calmed down and assuredly absitively to yield a nap. 18 hours afterwards my wife woke me up to eat.

Next anniversary I am traveling to try it afresh with a 5 day cruise to Hawaii. I apperceive all this being works there, I am just traveling to try and leave it bound in the safe and see how I do. How would you do if your technology was taken abroad for a day or a week?