[gordner]

It is crazy these days, like you have some sort of obligation to be in contact. I rarely carry my cell outside of work and when i do I turn the ringer off. It is not like I often face a life or death time critical decision.
It is too easy these days to lose yourself in the technology and forget to look up once in awhile at the real world.
The cell phone is the largest invasion of privacy of modern times. When I was in charge of a commuter airline I used to plan my vacations based on the voids in the Roger's cell coverage map. There is one house I can rent at the edge of the Shuswaps that is a black hole for cell use, and it is a loevly spot but the real driver was that I could tell the compay owners that it was out of my hands I would be 100% out of contact for the coming period. Seems insane that I had to do that, but they could never accept that I would just turn off my phone.