Vacation Sans Technology

I just got back from my trip to Maine today. It was a six hour drive one way, so I'm sure you can assume that I went deep into the a-hole of Maine; Bar Harbor to be exact. Bar Harbor is a tiny little town on Mount Desert Island, which is located in northern coastal Maine. It's a very beautiful tourist trap. The reason why I went there was to play in the outdoor splendor of Acadia National Park. If you haven't been there, I suggest you go at least one (in the summer). Being so far north and having no steady year-round population, the accessibility to wireless technology was extremely limited. The only place I could get the internet was at the bed and breakfast I stayed at, but I obviously didn't drive six hours to hang out in an old house with a bunch of sour-puss old farts (no offense old people). So it's safe to say that I spent the better half of a week without the ever present influence of the media we experience here, save for the newspaper article about some idiot who parked their car on a sand bar during low tide thinking it was a parking lot (hilarious).

It sucked when I couldn't use my iPhone to check the weather while I was having lunch with my boyfriend, but these are things you get over quickly. I checked my e-mail once, and didn't even think about doing any homework. It's nice being detached every now and then. When you're scaling the side of a cliff mountain thing, Facebook is the last thing on your mind.

Non-related note. I hiked the Beehive! The picture shows part of the "trail".

Bloggy Blog Blog

Blog... what a funny word. I don't know what it stands for, but blogs are a cool thing for the most part. I was eating lunch with my entire office today, and we started talking about blogging. Joe, one of our maintenance guys has lived a crazy and interesting life. We were telling him that he should write a book, and I suggested he start a blog. He's an older guy and he's super open-minded, just an all around groovy guy. He was really interested in it. I would totally read his blog. I feel like his stories would be really interesting.

My boss, who is a younger woman with a baby on the way started to tell me that a lot of people are now starting baby blogs. Basically blogging about the babies growth, cute things they do, yadda yadda. I always thought blogs were just for people who like to hear themselves talk and disclose too much to complete strangers. But it seems that they can serve a more practical and down to earth purpose. Go blogs!

Shark Week is Cool...

I don't know if you've noticed, but it's Shark Week (should I be capitalizing this?). Everywhere I look, Shark Week. All people are talking about, friggen Shark Week. I didn't know people liked sharks so much. Do people actually get this excited about the week long program, or is it just a contagious sort of thing? The sort of thing where because everyone else thinks it's cool, that you should too? How many shows can one really watch about sharks? I guess I just have a lot of questions about this.

I've never been an avid follower of Shark Week, unlike many others. I may have caught a show here and there a few times, but I've never put my life on hold for a week to watch a bunch of shows about sharks. This is a peculiar thing to me. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for educational and entertaining programming, especially if it involves Mike Rowe without a shirt (hubba hubba); but what is so special about sharks that they get an entire week of programming dedicated to them? Is there going to be a Zebra Week? How about a Bear Week? I could watch those too. Maybe the Discovery Channel should expand the spotlight to some other well deserving animals. I'm sure they're all so jealous.