Forty Hours in Technological Limbo
Friday
- Hour 1 (20:00 - 21:00) Having received a rather abusive text from Amanda, I gaped in disgust, turned my phone off and started reading a trashy romance novel (number one)
- Hour 2 (21:00 - 22:00) Trashy romance novel number two began and a bath. Why was there SO MUCH TIME without my computer?
- Hour 3 (22:00 - 23:00)Romance novel number three!
- Hours 4 and 5 (23:00 - 1:00) I was so bored that I played pokemon monopoly with Michael. I was totally kicking his ass. I got all of the pokeballs (train stations), orange properties and the Articuno/Zapdos combo (water/electical works).
Saturday
- Hours 5 - 15 (1:00 - 11:00) Errr. Yep. I slept through a quarter of my techno-famine.
- Hours 16 - 18 (11:00 - 14:00) Finished up that monopoly game with Michael. He ended up landing on the free parking (there was $600 in there!) and buying all these houses and going broke again. Then I decided ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH! and forfeit.
- Hours 19 - 20 (14:00 - 16:00) My mother has been nagging me for almost an eternity to clean my room. To save myself from going insane (from both the nagging and lack of computer) I decided today would be the day I would get rid of the junk. Oh, yes, I did have to bribe Michael to help me. Hey come on, if you had a room like mine, you’d bribe your younger siblings to help you too.
- Hour 21 (16:00 - 17:00) I can’t believe I actually exercised. I rode a bike ’round the estate. I’m also ashamed to say I got puffed out after going up a hill or two :(
- Hours 22 - 23 (17:00 - 19:00) I think I may have read more in the past 24 hours than I have in the entire month. I read a little until a tiny gnome living in my brain attacks the left side with a hammer (I believe this gnome is suffering from lack of computer too). I wake up and stumble downstairs to get a panadol (Why can I not endure a tiny headache? Why must I run straight for the drugs?)
- Hours 24 - 26 (19:00 - 22:00) I take a shower then come back downstairs and break out the pretty tea set. I sit around, with a pad of paper and a pen, drinking bitter, lukewarm, chinese tea (which I’m convinced is hallucinogenic) and writing strange stories and lyrics. Sometime later, I wander off to the piano to create equally strange music to those weird lyrics. I probably woke my poor early sleeping neighbours up. Sorry! I suddenly decided to start mixing up a cake and all is going swimmingly until the oven starts turning on and off of it’s own will. Michael comes home from a friends and says “Juan Carlos beat Nadal! And it was on TV! And you didn’t get to see it! Hah!”
- Hours 27 - 29 (22:00 - 01:00) Cake turns out nicely. Michael and I play cards until I fall asleep.
Sunday
- Hours 30 - 34 (01:00 - 06:30) I wake up and it’s dark. My hand scrambles around on my bedside table and I look at my watch and think “It’s 12:00! It’s over, thank god!” until I realise my watch is upside down. I go back to sleep
- Hours 36 - 38 (6:30 - 10:00 ) Around 8:30, I wake up, look at my watch again and think “Nooo.. Just go to sleep until 12 and then you can get on the computer!” Sleep doesn’t come, so I decided to read another book. But no… I’m not content to lie around in bed all morning and read. I have to get up, go downstairs and play the piano.
- Hour 39 (10:00 - 11:00) Slowly going crazy. Keep thinking “two more hours… Two more hours…”
- Hour 40 (11:00 - 12:00)I go outside and it’s a warm morning. It feels like summer and Michael and I jump on the trampoline like we’re little kids. For a while, I forget about getting on to the computer as soon at it hits twelve and focus on jumping around, feeling childish but happy.
Some interesting things happened in those forty hours. I can survive without my computer and my mobile phone. But not without panadol and hallucination-inducing tea.
# Gumby, 2 years, 3 months ago.
Poor Tracey. Personally I could not have gone without TV for 40 hours, I would go insane. I would miss the Chaser and Doctor Who. I cannot live without TV. Lovely TV. Beautiful television. Ahhhhh…. and the warm buzz of contentment washes over me…
Heheh JC actually won something! Its a miracle! THATS SO JUAN CARLOS!!!!!!!
Stay away from that hallucinogenic tea Trace. You have yelled at me to never take drugs, and I strongly urge you to do the same.
You have a trampoline?!?!?!?!?! I have always wanted a trampoline. When I go to your house, if I ever go, because we never seem to get around to it, I will spend all of my time on your trampoline. I will sleep on it. Cherish the trampoline.
# Amanda, 2 years, 3 months ago.
Heh. I do abusive SMS’s well.
# Amber, 2 years, 3 months ago.
I had to live without my computer for 6 weeks once. I thought I was going to die from boredom, you know.
But it just proves we can do it if the situation requires it! ha. As for Amanda and her abusive text… I didn’t expect anything from from her.
# Chans, 2 years, 3 months ago.
It’s hard but if you stick to it you can do it! I spend two weeks (!!) without my Internet a few weeks ago due to my holiday. I even resisted temptation of Internet bars and the like.
I survived and now know that I can manage a little while without my connection, although two weeks is more than enough!
# Amanda, 2 years, 3 months ago.
^ Wow Amber, I’m somewhat insulted. :P
# Amber, 2 years, 3 months ago.
Ah, but we all know what you are like Amanda. Sitting there sending abusive texts and SMSs in your spare time because you like to bully poor unsuspecting people around the web. I know your type o__O
You have a new theme, and I think I only just noticed it (or have I commented on it before? I never remember these things)..
# Jon, 2 years, 3 months ago.
It’s strange how slowly time passes when you’re not on the computer, eh? So much time to do whatever you want. You think it would almost…_mean_ something! Haha.
# Boris, 2 years, 2 months ago.
Heh. Didn’t expect to see you alive on Monday at school.
# Suse, 2 years, 2 months ago.
Glad you survived hell without internet! ;)
I’m actually finding it easier to stay away from the computer/internet now. All you really need is something else to do to keep your mind off it (and perhaps something better than trashy romance novels..! :P).
Anyway, glad to have you back!
# Shawna, 2 years, 2 months ago.
Psh, you don’t read ROMANCE novels when you’re being deprived of internet! That’s when you need to break out the BIG guns. The entire Harry Potter Series. Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit + Silmarillion. Everything C.S. Lewis has ever written, since Chronicles isn’t that long. THE BIBLE.
Glad to see you survived ;)
# Alex, 2 years, 2 months ago.
Bahahahahaha. I read the bible once. Heheheh. I think you did well. And even though you excersised, bonded with your younger brother, increased your vocabulary (even if it was through trashy romance novels!), improved on your creativity, social and cooking skills, altogether living a well rounded, balanced, healthy lifestyle (well, maybe not the sleeping, but still), all as a result of not using technology for 40 hours… Life returns to “normal”. *Sigh*. Don’t you wish we could learn?
# Tracey, 2 years, 2 months ago.
Georgia - My trampoline is dirty and makes your feet go black when you jump on it. Believe me, you don’t want to sleep on it.
Amanda - Your SMS abuse disgusts me!
Amber - If the situation requires… I hope the situation never requires again!
Chans - Ok, two weeks makes me feel like 40 hours is a piece of pie.
Jon - Oh yes you’re right. TIME GOES SO SLOWLY.
Boris - Barely. ;)
Suse - But TRN are light fluffy (ok, smutty, shut up) reads that pass away the time quickly. Sort of.
Shawna - Believe it or not, I’ve only read OotP and HBP once. They made me so depressed, I don’t ever want to read them again. Ok, that’s a lie.
Alex - WE WILL NEVER LEARN!!! (Or at least I won’t…)