Laptop Addicts

My laptop is waiting for me at home like a patient friend, it knows that I will spend some time with it after dinner when all the dishes are cleaned up and the clothes hanging up over the ‘Sheila Maid’ ( Check this website if you want to know what that is!).  The big TV in the sitting room keeps silent while ‘Toshi’, my laptop’s  is checking out my online magazines and keeping an open line of communication with my friends & family.

Some people think it is totally unsociable to spend time on the computer, but then they think it is alright to spend a whole night watching TV. I am not particularly a TV person, I like creating things as I did in the 80 & 90 when I was knitting, embroidering and making clothes. Now I like writing technical manuals for my students and learning new html / css code.

Is it a sin for me to learn at night? It certainly does not prevent me from talking to my two teenagers or anybody else who happens to be in the house at the time. Of course there are many times when Toshi is happily sleeping on my desk … gosh it sounds like I am talking about a domesticated animal!

Hmmm…. is that what my laptop is, my digital no-footed friend?