Man or a mouse?

Was contemplating a real challenge the other day—experiencing one day sans any electronics. Zip. Nada.

Can one really walk away from the mouse—from the cell phone, the iPad, the desktop? Could you really enjoy yourself for one day being cutoff from all handheld devices?

I think I want to try it for a day. I really mean solo—no television clickers either. Where’s my kindle?

For a change, I’d like to pick up a rod and reel. Do you ever wonder if the fish are biting? We just need to Google the lake’s fishing reports, right? Arrghh! Damn that mouse.

Admittedly, it may be hard. Seems we sit at the computer all day every day with a mouse in hand. Then we tend to go home at night and get on the computer or the iPad. Recently we were on a three day weekend vacation. I held the iPad more than I held my wife’s hand. We even walked down the street with the help of the GPS app in hand navigating our way. Coincidentally, we found the perfect blues bar in all of Chicago. There they held guitars and harmonicas, and special beverages, too—though not to digress.

I notice when we are around our kids they text nonstop. I even texted across the dinner table one night to get their reaction just to put it all in perspective. Funny, they even texted back a response.

To protest, like Peter Finch’s character did in the movie “Network”, I am ready to scream from the highest window—”I am tired of this mouse trap and I’m not going to take it anymore…”

Call it doing the Man thing! Beginners course, this Saturday for me. I am going to put the mouse down, turn off the cell and relax. Going to walk away and smell the roses, without my iPad, too. Am going to try and go solo though, not sure, it may feel like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.

Life without Google—for a day. I can do it. Lol, who am I kidding. That dose of reality was scary stuff. Quickly back to work for me.