My weekend of reflection- Have I become techlogicaly dependent

This blog entry is late for my assigned deadline, and like every other  person who has ever been late, I also have a good excuse.  My excuse is the topic of the blog. 

  The issues all started when I started to write a post about last class and was struggling through it, when the power went out.  I initially was frustrated because we live in an old house and the entire upstairs is on 2 circuits.  This is usually only a problem when my wife uses her blow-drier.  The first piece of technology that drives me crazy.  It combined with any other electrical appliance turned on on 75% of my outlets cause instant darkness.  This was not the case on Saturday, rather a large portion of town lost power, and we did not get our power restored until after midnight. 

     It was at this point of realizing that I lost my blog, that was almost coming together, and that I now had 3 hours before work.  The issue was I didn’t know what to do.  my wife decided to take a nap, while I wandered around the house in the semi darkness looking at how much I had that I could do, yet I was unable to use these objects that I normally take for granted due to the power outage.  The first thing I did was go the the fridge and grabed a water and as soon as I opened the door, I thought, “shut it quick dumb-ass, the electric is out and it might be out for a while, and the fridge isn’t magically cold, it uses electricity”.  I than thought, I will get on my laptop and finish my blog.  Got my laptop and my water and got comfortable by a window (needed light) and when I went to get on the Internet I realized that our wireless modem is also not magical and uses electricity.  I ended up cleaning out a few junk draws and put away some laundry.  These are both tasks that I had been avoiding and always had a better or more stimulating excuse.  What amazed me next was that I went up stairs to find my wife awake and text messaging a few of her friends.  This is when I realized that technology might be holding us prisoner in many ways.  This lead me to start thinking about teaching and how excited I am to utilize the technology we have to inspire and extend learning.  I also realized I am going to inspire children to utilize and not overestimate the imagination and the fact that quite and slow or a little good old fashion hard work is good and needed in school and in life.  I realized that the struggle might be harder to keep the old ways than it will be to incorporate the new.  I look forward to the challenge and until then, I decided I am going to go buy a gas generator.  I told myself it was so the food wont spoil, but I think I might have a few other reasons.