web free weekend

[Shak]

must be going mad in my old age

am going to attempt a web free weekend beginning 6pm Friday > 7am Monday

have NOT done this for about 4 years.

will the world still be here when I get back

Shak

[sem4u]

Shak - I think the world will still be here when you get back.

My last two weekends were web free and I survived.

You might miss the Overture inventory figures again though ;)

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[kevinpate]

Having actually enjoyed multiple web free weekends and the occasional web free week, I'm confident most of us will still be a speck on the big blue marble when you return. Have fun!

[mivox]

Be careful Shak. Your presence online may be the mysterious stabilizing force of the universe. If the world ends this weekend, I'm blaming you!

[chrisnrae]

LOL, I went webfree last weekend and didn't even notice it. I was pretty busy though. If I tried to do it while simply sitting at home, I'd go insane, no doubt.

[jimbeetle]

I tried it last week on a long weekend in sunny Florida. Completely forgot about earnings and stats, and wound up checking my e-mail only three times a day, quite a nice break.

Until...

Flight back to NYC delayed. Pulled out the laptop, fired up GoToMyPC and spent about an hour updating some pages while sitting in the Ft. Lauderdale airport.

Maybe I'll do better next time.

[Robino]

I went to Europe this past summer and went to three towns in a row that had no internet cafes. I thought I was going to lose my mind.

My wife was happy though!

When we finally got to Prague where there was a 24 hour I-cafe right next to our hotel. I spent from 12:00 AM 'till 8AM in the place. Bonus: they sold BEER!

[Essex_boy]

12:00 AM 'till 8AM in the place. Bonus: they sold BEER - Downside it ended in divorce......

Tryed it for today just logged on once in teh morning and this afternoon for orders, actullay played a game till I thought of what I was missing on the web, then came on here.

[Robino]

Nah, she was happy because she was sleeping that whole time. And I actually let her sleep-in a little that day.

[skibum]

Web-Free weekends are great, web-free weeks are better and a web free year, well that would be heaven but will probably have to wait for the real thing.

Life is so much more relaxing and rewarding not staring at a computer screen all the time.

[dvduval]

I'm more worried about my cats than my computer. Who will feed them? Who will pet them? The computer will probably be better off if I don't touch it, maybe even let it sleep for a couple of days.

[internetheaven]

Life is so much more relaxing and rewarding not staring at a computer screen all the time.

Too right. There are so many other jobs I would much prefer to do ... but I'm good at this so I'm stuck doing it. Unfortunately, I've never been able to take a weekend off in two years and now I can't even remember what it feels like. I know that I have to squeeze as much cash out of this internet thing as possible before MSN and Google buy everything. I also know that if I got killed in a car accident tommorrow I'd kick myself in the next life for the time wasted at the screen. It's a dilemma most of us face everyday - don't have a life now so in five years you can take the rest of your life off work, OR have a life now but work every day till your sixty.

The easy stuff that earned fortunes last year just doesn't work anymore. It's Google's and Yahoo's fault I'm sat here all day every day ..... jerks .... ;)

[encyclo]

I've just had a web-free few days - first time for years (although I managed nearly 2 days in 2002 when travelling). This time it was forced upon me due to a quick unscheduled hospitalization. Of course, when I came back home, I fired up the computer in tredipation, assuming that all my sites were down, my domain names expired, and my email having exploded.

In reality, nothing had changed at all, only two clients had phoned and none had emailed. Nothing was urgent, nothing had gone wrong, my forum was running beautifully as the other admins looked after it. I'm going to do it again over Christmas, and this time on purpose!