In a message dated 7/17/00 8:29:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gshirley@lightwire.net writes: << It's amazing how much extra energy you have when you're not on the internet for several days. Here's the saga of the netless Shirley family. >> Hey George, I agree!! Lighting got my modem the second time this year, last week. While my computer was in the shop I acutally read a book in my spare time!! As it is, I have the computer in the Den area which is near the kitchen, so when I have a few spare minutes I check out the email etc. on the computer. Last week I sat down with a magazine or the book I had been trying to get read. As a * learning experince* I signed off 3 of the high volume list I was on...I'll miss them, but just didn't realize how much time I was devoting to email until last week!! Marie (upstate S.C.)