am I a Luddite?

(A Luddite is generally defined as one who opposes technical or technological change.)

Maybe, snort. No, that telephone is not the one I use anymore, but in some ways it might as well be. And I like having it around, as a nostalgic reminder if nothing else. I did finally graduate to a cordless phone about a year ago, but in defiant opposition to the tyranny of multi-tasking (those of you who KNOW me know how I feel about that!) I still refuse to do anything else when using it. Oh, but I do like walking around when talking to someone, so can better see the value of it. But a cell phone? Nope, not me. I don't WANT to be accessible at all times, thank you very much. In fact, half the time my ringer is off anyway as I often just get annoyed at being interrupted. What can I say? I'm a true introvert!

MP3 players? iPods? I'm surprised I even know the terms, although if I'm honest, about all I know about them is that they're musical gadgets of some kind. I have a Pentium II computer with, wait for it, a whole 1.96 GB. Sometimes I even have to clean my disk space if I have too many windows open and a blog is particularly large. I have Windows 98 and just tell Microsoft to go away when it presents me with Windows updates. This new Vista thing? Not interested.

Now am I telling you this because I think I'm in the right? No. I realize in fact that I should probably try to keep up more, but just can't be bothered. I guess I kinda figure that the stuff I have is still working well enough, and given my natural dislike of change (yes Dakota, I know, LOL), I prefer to leave things as they are. Snort.