After a week-long absence, I’m back in circulation (and civilization!). I went on vacation with the family at the beach, and the sun and surf proved to be the right ingredients to recharge my batteries. Entrepreneurs like us who have worked hard for the past months deserve a break to rest our minds and bodies!

To get away from it all, we went to a place with no high-speed Internet connection. I thought I would survive life without Internet, but found that I could not, though my husband was cool with it. He liked the idea of being totally unplugged, even for just a week. But not me. Worse, we didn’t even have dial-up connection (which I was hoping we would at least have) because the house we rented disallowed long distance calls and to dial-in to our ISP requires long distance connection! On the second day, I was already combing the phone directory to find an Internet cafe. Luckily, there is one 3 towns away from where we were staying and we drove to the place so I can satisfy my Internet fix. My Treo, though, proved to be a God-send item, as it allowed me to at least receive and respond to critical emails.

The vacation showed me how surgically-attached I am to the Internet. I would love to take time off from work again next summer, but this time, I will make sure that the rental house or hotel provides Internet access.

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