I got to know people in a different time and completely different cultures. I used to hate finishing a novel because I'd grown so attached to those characters.

Now I'm completely absorbed and pre-occupied by technology. I spend way too much time on the cell phone and I'm way too absorbed during my commutes writing reports or diary entries, as I'm doing right now, on my PDA. Then I waste the rest of the trip playing games.

I don't think it's a bad thing to write on a trip. It's just that I miss reading is all. I have a half dozen books that I've started and never finished. Right now I'm reading a novel called "Ice Lake" by John Farrow. It's a reeeally well written detective novel based in Montreal. Don't laugh! This is not some cheap dime novel. I've read the prequel to this one called "City of Ice". That book was brilliant.

Anyway, I started it a couple of months ago, but I'm always too whacked to read further.

Maybe I should turn off th Tee Vee.

Arc