Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve gone wireless. That’s right. I’m no longer tethered to a messy tangle of wires.

As I’m writing this blog, I’m at my kitchen counter watching my dinner on the stove. There’s jazz on the tv via the DVD player, and I’m feeling the ocean breeze through my back door . . .

For just a few dollars and a few minutes of plug-n-play configuration, I can enjoy DSL from my kitchen without a phone line. It’s the greatest liberation.

Let’s face it, most of us are on the computer several hours a day, checking and sending e-mail, reading and writing documents, surfing the Internet. Usually, I was confined to my office — the warmest room in the house. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my office, its rich red walls, the warm honey hued wood furniture, my chair and ottoman. But just sometimes, I get tired of forgetting that I’ve got a tea kettle on (to the demise of many tea kettles, mind you), of running downstairs to answer an insistent doorbell, of trying to write e-mails and cook at the same time.

Now, I’m free to do all of those things virtually at once. I’ve always marveled at how computers have changed our lives. Now, for the first time, I’m changing my life to the way it used to be . . . and I’m dragging my computer along for the ride.

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