Low-Tech Day: Part IV

It seems I need to apologize for never posting the thrilling conclusion to Low Tech Day. I mean, did I cave and watch the latest awkward exploits of Hannah Horvath on Girls? Was my craving for totally gorgeballs pictures of jewelry and baked goods on Pinterest just too much to withstand for the last three hours? Well let me tell you, people wanted to know what happened at the end of Low Tech Day. How many people? Doesn't really matter.

So briefly, here's the climactic...and then anticlimactic conclusion to Low Tech Day.

There's a knock at the door. I perk up and shout "Yay." I can't believe my telepathic message to the friend that was thinking of going to Kogi worked. This last three hours are gonna be cake now. I bounce downstairs to get to the door. Weird, why is my roommate already downstairs about to answer the door? Probably took me a couple seconds to put down my pen and he was like, well I better get the door if no one else is. He turns and gives me a look like, why are you coming down here? He opens the door.

It's not for me. It's for him. I explain the current experiment to our guest and within the next ten minutes or so, we're all engaging in house board game night. We played Ticket to Ride. I had never heard of it before, but let's just say, in the game, I played a beast train baron and everybody else played failed train tycoons, weeping as I monopolized America's Iron Horses.

I also spun a dreidel for awhile after we were done with the board game. Pretty sure my roommate's got a loaded dreidel, because I never once rolled the Jimmy Gimel. But, come on, what do you really expect from a gambling game that Jews play?

That's about all I did until 11:30 or so. Then, I decided to wrap up my thoughts on Low Tech Day.

Look, 24 hours without a lot of tech stuff is not that bad. I highly doubt when I turn on my laptop, phone, check my emails, that there will be anything so time sensitive that I missed out on. Like, what are we thinking that we need to constantly have multiple lines of communication open to us all at the same time? That if we don't respond to our friends immediately, they'll hate us and think we don't care.

I know I'm probably speaking for a minority. There's probably not that many people always on their phone and computer and checking to see if they have a new message, email, or notification every few minutes. If you're not one of those people, good. I'd recommend staying that way. Maybe I'm a tech addict. And everybody knows the first step to overcoming addiction...participating in a "low-something" day. Duh!

Tech addiction can be bad. But a few checks throughout the day doesn't hurt either. There was definitely some down time I could have filled with the use of technology. Saying "Hi" to somebody in a text. Looking up something I was curious about. Like how long is the track at the park I run at? Or seeing if something worthwhile was on TV. But otherwise, writing all of this was way more rewarding.

11:47. I think I'll wrap up on that note and think the next 13 minutes away. And then tomorrow, I'll go on my computer and type this all up.