Maybe the Luddites are Right

I’ve had it with technological advances.

Do bad things come in threes for y’all also?

First our AC and Furnace bit the dust and had to be replaced (they were un-fixable), then the computer in our 15-passenger van died. Which of course meant that van died since evidently nothing can run without a computer these days, and then our dryer was making death noises. It sounded like Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now or The Godfather. So we replaced that today. These repair bills are putting a serious dent in my running shoe budget. It's been a heck of a two weeks.

I'm going to have to keep running in my old shoes.


So we as a family are taking drastic measures – not that they know it yet.

I’m quitting my software job and moving out to the country and becoming an organic hemp farmer. I'll be selling the cars and vans and buying a horse or maybe some llamas. We will be going off the grid. No electricity, phone or running water. Sure the boys might start smelling worse than a donkey after awhile and the girls will have hairy legs and armpits and zits all over their faces and I’ll never be able to marry them off…but think of all the things we won’t have to worry about breaking.

I got a great price on this baby. A little paint a few throw-pills…



Plus we will get lots of reading, talking and game playing in. We will become a much closer family and our kids SAT scores will go through the roof.

Of course we will have to have an old hound dog for hunting and protection.

But not everything will change with our new lifestyle.

The kids will still get to swim every day.


And they will still have time outs when naughty.


And Sam and I will still be taking that cruise for our anniversary


I'll be starting a betting pool on how long it takes the teenagers to Go Postal without text messaging.

This post was written on my laptop using a wireless Internet connection while listening to my IPOD. If you will excuse me I need to go answer my cell phone, make an espresso and see what is on cable tonight – the high def channels on our wide screen TV are awesome.