My last post here was my 400th. Congratulations go out to me for having a blog for four years. I also crossed the 30,000 page view mark, so that's neat. Most of my hits come from a post I did about your iPhone not being able to connect to the 4G network. Get paid for any of this yet?
No.
Anyway when I last left you, I was planning on doing the no phone challenge. I did it! I only used my phone when my wife called me during her lunch break, used Siri to text my wife to let her know I was on my way to pick her up from work, and at the end of the day, my good friend Sean texted me some interesting life happenings, so I had to respond to that. So how did it go? Pretty good, actually. I watched Netflix, which is pretty unusual. The hardest part was when the kids were napping, I couldn't just fiddle with my phone while watching TV. I wanted to look up when someone died, but couldn't. After the kids went to bed for the night, my wife was going on with her business reading Facebook, and all I could do was twiddle my thumbs and dream about going to bed. Other than that, I didn't miss much. I thought about it a lot in the morning, but as the day progressed, the less I cared about my phone. Even in the next couple days, I found myself caring less about what was happening on Twitter or Words with Friends or anything else, really. But by today, Sunday, I'm fully regressed back to addict. But if I had to, I could go without my phone. It would be okay.
It wasn't freeing, like some people have said it would fell like. I just made me focus on other things. I suggest you unplug sometime. It's a little weird, but not life-changing, unless you're addicted to your phone worse than I was. I don't know. It wasn't that cool, but I'm glad I did it.
No.
Anyway when I last left you, I was planning on doing the no phone challenge. I did it! I only used my phone when my wife called me during her lunch break, used Siri to text my wife to let her know I was on my way to pick her up from work, and at the end of the day, my good friend Sean texted me some interesting life happenings, so I had to respond to that. So how did it go? Pretty good, actually. I watched Netflix, which is pretty unusual. The hardest part was when the kids were napping, I couldn't just fiddle with my phone while watching TV. I wanted to look up when someone died, but couldn't. After the kids went to bed for the night, my wife was going on with her business reading Facebook, and all I could do was twiddle my thumbs and dream about going to bed. Other than that, I didn't miss much. I thought about it a lot in the morning, but as the day progressed, the less I cared about my phone. Even in the next couple days, I found myself caring less about what was happening on Twitter or Words with Friends or anything else, really. But by today, Sunday, I'm fully regressed back to addict. But if I had to, I could go without my phone. It would be okay.
It wasn't freeing, like some people have said it would fell like. I just made me focus on other things. I suggest you unplug sometime. It's a little weird, but not life-changing, unless you're addicted to your phone worse than I was. I don't know. It wasn't that cool, but I'm glad I did it.
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