Not that my missing posts from Monday-Thursday of this week should have caused anyone alarm, but the simple explanation is that I forgot my phone when we headed to Seattle to see grandsons and parental units last Sunday.
The phone was charging and you'll be happy to know that it possessed a robust amount of power when we returned, just before yet another spring snowstorm, yesterday evening.
I tried to log onto my Google accounts through my wife's phone and iPad, but ran into a true First World problem: Google did not recognize either device and kept wanting to send a log in code to -- you guessed it -- my phone. There was a link to click if I did not have my phone, but the security question did not seem familiar and I never could answer it to the AI's satisfaction.
So I was effectively off-grid for nearly five days.
The good news is that I could still check in on the world through the Seattle Times and through local news recordings my wife could access on her iPad. I missed a couple emails, it turns out, that were time-sensitive, but nothing major.
Stuff continued to happen, as I discovered last night when I started plowing through the 228 emails in my account along with various Facebook notifications. That "stuff" happened without me as an active observer, which was a great reminder that being constantly tied to the interwebs is NOT a prerequisite for living.
In fact, I spent extra time with the grandsons -- when I could pry them from their own screens. I actually spent some time sitting in the yard, enjoying the sun (it was gorgeous in Seattle, and that is a rare thing) and watching some industrious squirrels enjoying themselves.
But now we are home and all my screens were waiting patiently for me to sign on and resume changing the world (or not).
It's nice to be reminded, from time to time, that we are not very important in the grand scheme of things, and that our constant screen watching is mostly passive.
Still, I vow to not forget my phone ever again.
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