I go through withdrawal when I don't have web access...

I find it like a morning in springtime myself.

I can quit anytime...no, really, I could if I wanted to. But not just yet, ok. Maybe in a year or two.

My name is Seanie and I used to be an internet addict.

I now happily leave the blackberry in the desk at nights and on weekends. Luckily, unlike former employers, I now work for people that have lives after 5 pm and they don't expect to be able to call you at 10 pm and when you are camping with the kidlings. I also steer clear from the net except for a few hours of gaming about twice a week and maybe checking streaming soccer scores on the weekend. I look upon net free time as a bliss.

AND on the kid front, I am happy to report the return of paper based D&D to what is cool among the geeks and nerds at the comic store. I was in to pick up my comics the otehr day and heard many a discussion about folk playing D&D instead of Xbox.

The Internet is my outboard brain. It helps me learn stuff, it helps me remember stuff, it helps me contextualize stuff. It reminds me when my Dad's birthday is, and also reminds me that I have a meeting in ten minutes. It also helps me keep in touch with people and exposed to new ideas.

*twitch*

A wonderfully engaging alternative to work, genuine socialization and making meaningful contributions to society. Although it does make access to dubious information, banking and paying parking tickets quicker.

On the other hand, http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2383.

And yet, I haven't paid my parking tickets.

Well, it does give me access to this.

Renee, only a true geek would put up a non-clickable link of that quality.

On the kidling's front my eldest (19) simply sees FB and his often lost blackberry as useful extensions of himself. My little ones (8 and 5) see the net as an always on source for pretty much everything from Penguin videos to TopGear to games to information. The screen is an appliance like a toaster but more fun. The five year old can't read terribly well yet but can bookmark and hit "start" for assorted games.

The good news is that years of quarter plugging means I can still whup'em both at Astroids, Space Invaders and most racing games. The bad is that they play games which I cannot begin to understand.

I like the idea of paper based D&D....Risk next and then Diplomacy.

Nothing is more fun than a toaster.

I was about to snigger at jay's 19 year old having his own BB till I remembered I bought mine an iPod Touch..

It was just last year when teh big fight began..my 10 and 6 year old boys discovered that they could "book" use of the computer and net in advance by asking their mom before I got home.. My levelling of my character on Warcraft has taken a hit ever since.

Jay... We're trying to set up a local bi-weekly geezers gaming group. Feel free to hop on the Lear and fly down to join us.

I like the very sound of "geezer gaming group". But the Lear's in the shop.