absolute friends

This morning I worked for 2 hours had lunch and then went back to the computer, the internet was down. At first incredibly frustrating because I wanted to do work but after a siesta and an afternoon and evening reading (and completing) Absolute Friends by John Le Carre I now have internet.

I am totally incapacitated without the internet, in a few short years how quickly we (me at least and I cannot imagine that there is not millions of others like me in this fact) have become attached and dependent upon the internet in our daily lives. When I was at university I could not go a day without checking my email, now it is more like an hour or even less than that, yet only 5 years ago the internet was something of a luxury with slow dialup connection and only a small amount of the week that was spent online (if any at all).
I use i-net for music, information, porn, juggling, photography, email and contact with friends and family, online banking and shopping, checking what the weather is outside (I can look or pop my head out of the window sure but it is so much easier clicking the mouse a few times and getting instant readout on the screen) and so much more. Reading a book now is so much of a pleasure which I have to make sure I take time out for, the computer is so moorish drawing oneself in for more and leaving little time for anything else. Unless you force yourself away, turn it off or whatever, and actually do something different. TV is much the same but I am getting bored with TV at the minute, there is little on and reading is much more fun. Smallville is back on TV, as is 24, later in the month so things shall change.

Juggling today, 4 catches of Backcross 3-ball NR. Keep on hitting the back of my head with balls which aint good! ManU drew goalless with Chelsea in the semis of the league cup 1st leg.

The Le Carre book was really good, really crazy ending. Spies of today post 9/11 post-Iraq II with english spy coming to terms with conscience and post-cold war spying world. V.good, although then ending was too fast for my liking.