PROMPT: Without a Computer

Your life without a computer:
what does it look like?

I imagine like it does when I go on long hikes, and have no access to computer or internet. i.e. Mostly blissful with the occasional bleak thought that the world might be ending without one’s awareness.

PROMPT: First Computer

Daily writing prompt
Write about your first computer.

My first computer was my brain interfaced with a No. 2 pencil. Yes, I date that far back in the technology stream.

PROMPT: Sans Computer

Daily writing prompt
Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

Less productive but more peaceful… Except, perhaps, for the cursing every time I chiseled a typo into the granite.

PROMPT: Online Search

Daily writing prompt
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

I looked up what “Black Acid” is because it was mentioned in a Hunter S. Thompson book I was reading (i.e. “Kingdom of Fear”) and it sounded like a thing one should steer clear of if one doesn’t want to regain consciousness pantless in a ditch with no recollection of the last several hours. Well, you can’t avoid something if you don’t know what it is. Because “Knowledge is Power!”