You can see here pictures of the my family's cabin that dates back to the early 1940's in the mountains of Idaho. The lake view we have, the forest behind the cabin and Jen reading to our kids out on the deck. We have electricity and running water but no TV, Internet or cell connection.
How did I survive being "unplugged" for three days? It wasn't actually all that tough as you can tell from the pictures :) And to be fair it wasn't a full 3 days. More like 2 1/2.
We have radio so I was able to listen to USA's loss to Ghana in the World Cup. After that I had very little interest in being connected. j/k
Besides spending time with my family, my main goal was to disconnect and get some writing done. I didn't get much done from a word count perspective but I think I had a major breakthrough on a problem I've been working through.
What was interesting though is when I found it time to get back I suddenly found myself getting anxious. There was a slight feeling of dread at what was waiting for me. Usually on the weekends I check mail maybe once or twice a day just so I know what I'm walking back to. An entire weekend plus most of Monday went by without me being able to make sure everything was okay. For all I knew the World could have ended, there could b e some unknown crisis at work or Twitter could be having more uptime problems :)
Rationally I knew this anxiety was stupid but there was a little bit of fear of the unknown happening. So I cheated. I checked my emails and then turned it all back off again. Work can wait until tomorrow.
Post-Social. Futurist. 
