How scary is this? My husband just got a solar charger for his Blackberry (it charges iPods, too!) so that even if we were to go camping, for example, his needy clients could call him about their hard drive crashes or software snafus…I’m glad they find him so indispensible but it’s frustrating when we’re having a nice meal out and he has to take a call from some high powered person in a panic over a printer problem right when our soup’s being served…sigh. I guess it’s a small price to pay for being married to a tech guru who has a way with wayward laptops, my own included!

Now you’ve got me worried about brain tumors again. Every time I hear about one of these studies I cringe… and can’t bring myself to believe the results if they say anything about tumors NOT being caused. I’m not going to be able to stop thinking about this. (I think I feel a tumor developing right now!!!) Sigh… there goes my weekend.

I really should just get rid of my cell phone.

The last sentence here… Umm… you know… I am very down with the empowerment of the female gender and the equality of all peoples. I am very sympathetic to the plight of women in the workplace, who no doubt typically face a much steeper challenge balancing professional and personal lives, BUT… are “women… the only members of the family who also experience the stress of having home life spill over into work life?” Really? Men never get crazy phone calls from home or have to deal with sick or misbehaving children sitting in an office waiting for them at school? Men never experience the stress of having home life spill over into work life? I’m not so sure.

I know that women are typically forced to carry a much heavier load (because of both stupid societal reasons and reasonable biological reasons) and I absolutely respect that. But I object to the notion that men with families never are professionally affected by their family lives.

(Stefanie, am I fired?)

Anyway… back to the brain tumor worries.

you stay more connected to your family with a cell phone too.