I swing back and forth in thinking that stuff like this is either fluffy navel gazing or serious introspection. I'd like to think it serious introspection. I'

I swing back and forth in thinking that stuff like this is either fluffy navel gazing or serious introspection. I'd like to think it serious introspection. I'm on my laptop a fair amount, and at home there's almost always a laptop open on the kitchen counter for checking email. My wife reads quite a bit online, and I do too. Our older son, who is 7, is just beginning to poke around on an old laptop. Do I spend a fair bit of time each day on my laptop? Yeah. I don't, however, carrying a mobile data device (yes, I have a cell phone, but no data plan), so if I'm not at home, or at work, I'm not "connected," and I don't feel anxious about that. We're leaving shortly for a one month road trip. I'll be working periodically, and my wife has an iPhone, but I'm looking forward to being disconnected for days at a time. I'm not sure it'll be liberating, though, since I don't necessarily feel that I am a slave to anything.