Somewhere, something
went terribly wrong

If I could have all the time back spent on the phone or computer trying to sort out a tech or customer service problem for the computer and phone service, I would have many more weeks of life. Today I just tried login in on my computer to check my air miles. I found out that the method to login to airlines account has changed and I would need a new password. After trying and failing to get one on the computer several times I called the airlines. After being put on hold for long periods, talking to a few customer service people and after much time I failed to login. So I just asked the customer service person how many credit cards miles I had earned on the airline. She told me and I said thank you and that I would try my luck at signing in by computer some other time.

When I was a child I remember hearing how all this new technology would give us more leisure time. Just the opposite has happened. With more technology we have more things to do and more frustration at times doing them. It is nice to have communication with persons all over the world, to have so much entertainment choices and so much access to what is happening so fast. But it comes with a cost.

The cost is less leisure time, just sitting around listening to music or basking in the sun. Even finding time for my garden work, which I like, at times, becomes difficult. I think leisure time, like leisure suits, is something of the past. To have leisure assumes slowing down to a slow pace of life. Leisure is becoming a thing of the past like a typewriter or vhs. (If there are young readers who do not know what vhs or typewriter is just ask parents or grandparents.)

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