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Cassidy: Writer vax vacation access unplugs with a 'no e-mail on vacation' how to finance a vacation house pledge
IT WAS ROUGH, IT WAS dude ranch family vacation TOUGH, BUT WRITER TAKES 'NO E-MAIL ON VACATION' PLEDGE
By Mike Cassidy
Mercury News Columnist
Article Launched: 07/25/2008 01:31:21 AM united states vacation spots PDT
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This year I was determined to take kissimmee florida vacation rental a summer vacation in a big way. I would check out from work without checking in.
Taking a cue from Stanford law professor and cyber-celebrity Lawrence Lessig, I pledged to steer clear of my e-mail in-box while reconnecting with my extended vacation new brunswick canada and vacation housing huatulco mexico far-flung family in the woods of Wisconsin.
Now I'm back in San Jose buried in e-mail, forgotten promises, demands summer vacation ideas from editors for scintillating columns and critiques from readers of columns that ran while I
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was lounging and swatting mosquitoes vacation rentals by owner daytona in palm springs vacation homes the land of milk and bratwurst.
I'm paying now for my "no e-mail on vacation" pledge. But it was so worth it.
Full disclosure: I florida rental vacation homes peeked at my in-box once or twice. But mostly I held firm, inspired by Lessig's practice of going e-mail-less multi country vacation escorted for one month a year.
And you know what? The world didn't end. The Mercury News published without me. Colleagues welcomed me back with no apparent hard feelings over my slow response to e-mail that must lazy river vacation package have seemed very important at the time.
Since my return, I've scanned the first few lines of the e-mail that I let pile up. Two-thirds of it is junk. The rest ranges from interesting to marginally so.
Was there anything in there that I was sorry I missed? Well, yes. A co-worker, a gem of a journalist, a genuine character and a frequent help to thailand and pattaya sex vacation package me,
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sent a note that garden city beach vacation rental he was leaving the Mercury after 31 years. I will miss him and sandals top honeymoon vacation I would have liked to say goodbye.
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Still, the better question is: What would I have missed if I'd been reading e-mail instead of reveling in the lives of my seven brothers and sisters and my mother and father, both in their 80s?
What would I have missed if my eyes were fixed on a screen instead of flashing from scene to scene in a soaring log lodge where my fishing pier corpus vacation rentals folks and siblings and my siblings' spouses and kids and my own
