Morning cup of coffee

Having my morning cup of coffee, waiting for a more civilized hour to go out and start with the yard work.

I’m on the clock again, and it’s my Sunday.  Sundays are supposed to be lazy, quiet, and slow, unfortunately that’s not my life anymore.

Seems like I’m always racing to the next thing these days. I miss being able to just relax.

Well, I guess that just means I need to keep working at normalizing my life again. Whatever “Normal” is. 

It’s funny, seems like the more I try to make my life simple, the more complicated it gets. It’s not just doing the physical stuff, it’s the encroachment of the digital aspect of all our lives.  If it’s not some website demanding that you change your password and add a PIN and give us your phone number and activate two factor authentication, it’s another service telling you that they don’t have enough people to answer your call and that you really should be using their overly complicated website for better service.

Really? Since when did using my computer, or tablet, or phone make anything actually easier?

No matter what you’re using to access the digital services… you’re having to keep track of passwords, signs & countersigns and there’s a new trend on some websites where they won’t let you copy and paste that information. That means that if you’re trying to use your phone you can’t switch to your password manager, copy the password and paste it into the required field.

So now you’re writing the 16 character password down and entering it from a piece of paper then manually typing it in, praying that you get it right. So tell me again how this is making my accounts safer???

And of course if you work where I do, you’re doing all this in your car on a 10 minute break that you’re going to burn four minutes of just getting into and out of the building.

All of our lives are too busy and too complex. 

I miss the “Good ‘Ol days” when you could move at your own pace and not dance 24/7 to someone else’s tune.

I think the Amish folks may have it right.

Maybe we should start putting away our tech, keep it and be a technological society but get back to making things simple.

I think there was a StarTrek movie about a group of people who knew technology, but chose simply not to use it.

After all who doesn’t appreciate the craftsmanship of Amish furniture and goods?