Today, I learned another life lesson. Don't drink tea by your MacBook Pro. After spilling half a mug of tea into the keyboard of my MacBook and watching the screen flash and then turn off while I frantically yell some choice words, turn off the laptop and turn it upside down in an attempt to get the worst of the tea out of it, I realize it was not worth it. Things that make it worse, the first thing I thought when I woke up this morning was that it had been a week since backing up my computer and I should do it again today...but I didn't get there yet. Also, there was a voice in the back of my head this morning saying I should just take my time and drink my tea in quiet reflection at the dinning room table...but no, I decided to get right to work instead. But oh well...what can I do now? Just wait the 48 hours for it to dry and pray that it will turn on again and everything will be ok.

This dilemma I am facing helps me realize things though. We have no idea what to do with ourselves when we lose a key piece of technology in our lives. My MacBook was like another limb to me and I feel lost without it. What is society coming to that we have created such a reliance on our technological devices? I am thankful I have other computers at my fingertips that I can use. But they do not function with the same capabilities as my "baby" did. So now, not only do I have a reliance on technology, but anything other then my own will not suffice.

When do we need to take a step back, slow down from our busy lives and rely less on these technological "conveniences" we have been provided in our lives? I suppose to argue my case, if my business wasn't so technology driven it probably wouldn't be near as big a deal (at least that's what I like to tell myself anyway haha). But perhaps we need to take a step back and realize just how much "machines" are beginning to rule our lives.

Maybe Karl Marx was right when he said: "Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."