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07.30.04 (7:58 pm)   [edit]
When I was wondering around the village taking the photo’s of windows and doors I met a really interesting woman. We first started chatting when she asked me why I was doing what I was doing, but we went on to talk about village life in general. It was fascinating. We’ve only lived here for a few months and for us it feels like moving back in time. She’s lived here for over thirty years (originally she’s from Germany), and is soon to move away because she thinks life here is moving too fast for her. She’s going to live in a place close to where we used to live, but the quirk is she’s bought a cave. [url=http://www.andalucia.com/guad...]There’s a town in Granada province [/url] where there’s a thriving community of troglodytes. I’ve been and had a look at these places and they can be as high-tech or low-tech as you want. She wants to live the lowest-tech life possible. I really took to her. I doubt we’ll meet again, but I know I’ll think of her from time to time and hope her new life is working for her.

Anyway, what’s been playing on my mind today was “how or when did all this accessibility happen?” Early this morning I read some blogs, left comments, replied to some comments, listened to messages left on my answer machine, listened to messages left on my cell phone, read text messages, answered them, read and replied to emails. Eventually I got out of the house and drove down to the supermarket. When I came out there was a note on my car which said, “hello, are you Andaloo? If you are will you please call me on *** because I need to talk to you about something.” I’m not complaining, I just can’t remember how or when it all started. There are days when life in a cave sounds quite attractive!
 

posted by: Mimi (reply)
post date: 07.30.04 (11:05 am)

man! but isn't it wonderful to have the capability to reach out to all of your friends and loved ones all the way from there! and to reach out and touch hearts from one end of the world to the other! meeting new folks along the way...taking and giving whatever the need may be! wow...am i deep or what!!!!! xoxox


posted by: flaring (reply)
post date: 07.30.04 (1:45 pm)

When I was 11, in 1979, I rented my first modem from the University where I lived and signed on for an account on the BBS the school had set up to teach kids about computers and expose them to an online community. I had a TRS-80 with 4 kilobytes of RAM, no harddrive, and a recently purchased 5.25" disk drive. The modem was 300 bits per second and you had to actually take the handset of your phone and velcro it to the modem. There was no web, but you could FTP and archie different universities on the net. You could leave messages on the BBS like a forum. There were a few newsgroups devoted to things I wasn't really interested in.

I was hooked. I am now so connected that I work to be not connected. I turn my phone off. I ignore the doorbell. But I sign on the computer every day.


posted by: billlyryan (reply)
post date: 07.30.04 (2:35 pm)

Can I just come there and live in your backyard??? Do you have an arbor? One a them things that have all that nature stuff hanging off it? I could just come there and sleep under there!


posted by: librarianguish (reply)
post date: 07.30.04 (10:07 pm)

I want to go back in time!! I don't know how we all got so wired, and me a luddite and all.

Do you think if we started a rogue state of bloggers, we'd all get along face to face? I still really like to talk to people, but I want to talk to NICE PEOPLE. That isn't too much to ask, is it?


posted by: Mimi (reply)
post date: 07.31.04 (6:06 am)

Reply to: librarianguish
i like nice people too...so let's talk, shall we?


posted by: lynne (reply)
post date: 08.01.04 (6:41 am)

I dont think I would want to live in a cave. But, the idea of staying in one for a little while sounds nice. And guess what, I can if I want to!

http://www.andalucia.com/cavehotel/home.htm

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