I am currently working on my Danish Christmas post, but I am slowed down by my Christmas vacation. Not because of holidays’ preps or time spent rubbing my white and grey fur ball. Although both would be excellent reasons to stay away from the keyboard.

No, the fact is that I have a weird relationship with technology. I don’t have anything against progress. I like technology for its many uses. I wouldn’t have a great friend in Denmark without the internet, I wouldn’t have a chance to share my thoughts with the world, and I must say, I am happy to warm up my bowl of soup in the microwave when I don’t have time to wait for the stove…

But for some obscure reason, I refuse to be a technology slave. I could afford a little more technology in my life, I don’t lack budget for it. But when I look at people hypnotized by their “intelligent” cellphones, or their super-mega-highspeed internet… When I see people fighting over the first new version Iphones, when they have the last one working just fine in their pocket… My brain screams NO!

So I look like a dinosaur. Often, I got the “are you from the past?” look. And I don’t blame people for that. I don’t own a cellular phone, we have a tablet at home, but it is pretty basic and with all the work I have done with it, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it died in the night one morning, soon. On top of that, our laptop computer is so old and slow that I have to NEEEEEED to use it to dare type in the login. Just for an example, yesterday I got the urge to listen to audio version of Saint-Exupéry’s “The little prince”. It ended up being a 2 and a half hours of struggle, I found the file on Itunes, bought it, and I finally gave up when I realized the first part had been transfered on my (2005, or something close to that) Ipod, but for some reason it wouldn’t play…

And to make it even worse, I have a conflictual relationship with what I call “the Technology Gods”. Even when using perfectly working computers, if something can go wrong, it DOES. So it gets frustrating, and I give up my online activities.

I am lucky to have a job that compares to fire fighter work. No, I don’t wear a yellow uniform and carry an axe to save people. But as a technical support agent, I only have job to do if our machines break down or if there’s a problem with the network. Meaning that if everything is going well, I have a lot of free time on hand. So I must admit that a good part of my posts have been written at work, on a good computer.

Now on vacation for 10 days, I should be over productive. I should play the “wink at my blogger pals suddely” full time. But I will most likely be very quiet. It is a shame. But I promise to try to find a way to improve my access to WordPress at home. All this to simply say that I still like your posts just the same, and I’ll be there in the shadows reading your blogs, but I might not reply as much as I am used to.

Vi skrives ved snart venner 🙂