I'm almost 5 good Belgian beers into this blogging thang tonight, but I've got tomorrow off so I'm going for two posts in a row. My little rant about cell phones has got me fired up.

As I stated below, I'm a dinosaur compared to everyone I know. No cell phone. No video camera. No digital camera. But I'm also a science geek; I like to build things; I like to read about the latest and greatest whirligig options available for pretty much anything. Just because I don't own it doesn't mean I don't appreciate it. My point is that I'm not some old geezer yelling at the neighborhood kids to stay of his lawn. I'm not anti-technology. I've just come to realize that every piece of new technology I bring into my home takes away a little more of my most precious commodity; time.

The other day, while standing in line to buy a 16 dollar replacement battery for a 20 dollar cordless phone, I found myself thinking about the amount of time (and energy) I waste on the gadgetry I do have. The number one time burners for me (besides, to quote Homer Simpson, "Sweet, life-giving teevee.") is this iMac I'm typing on right now and, oddly enough, the iPod that came free with it.

Even though the iPod required many hours to build and maintain a music library, I'm so completely hooked on it that I don't even play CDs any more. The iMac is my portal to the intertoobz, where I can easily spend the largest part of any given day. It also houses my blog, a place I built to practice putting words together, but which has become more of a neglected second wife.

I can only imagine how much less time I would have if I had a laptop and a cell phone. I'd probably have to cut back on my personal hygiene just to keep up.