TechNOOOOOOOOOOOOOlogy

Somebody asked how all this stuff gets posted - given that I decided not to carry the additional weight and bulk of my tiny laptop.
This leads me to fear that eventually I'm going to have to talk about my love/hate relationship with technology. But for now maybe I'll just describe how this works - theoretically - when nothing goes wrong, which of course is never.
I'm so smart that I don't bring my tiny laptop. Why carry one more thing unless it's absolutely necessary? Don't want to have to worry all the time about it getting lost or stolen. Don't want to add another 2 1/2 pounds to my 12 pound backpack. So here I am traveling for 3 months with just my little PDA in one pocket, my digital camera in another, a bunch of memory cards, and a collapsible keyboard and a memory card reader stuck somewhere else in my garments. (Remind me to tell you later about my discovery of cargo pants – those wonderful traveling pants with so many zippered and velcroed pockets that purses and day packs have become obsolete!)
So whenever I get a chance – and the urge – I unfold the keyboard, plug it into the little handheld and write away. It´s pretty cool. I save what I write to a memory card and then later on when I get to an internet café, plug the memory card into the card reader, plug it into the computer and upload to my blog. Then I put the memory card from the camera into the card reader and upload some photos to go with the blog entries. Pretty cool, huh? When I see someone else whip out their laptop at one of the many places where they have wireless internet available, I wish that I had brought my laptop with me. But only for a minute. And then I proceed to feel oh, so superior for being able to do all of this without one.
Now this all sounds so totally cool and together that I´ve decided I really don´t want to tell you about:
Two days ago when I was being ever so efficient and editing all of my photos directly on the camera and accidentally managed to hit the ¨format¨button. Amazing how fast you can delete 939 photos of all the incredible things seen in 5 weeks in Antigua.
Earlier this month when my memory card reader died and I couldn´t upload anything without it. Anyhow, I was only moaning and groaning about that for a week or so until Gene went out and found me a new one.
Last year when I spent a ridiculous amount of time on our North American trip searching for the particular type of battery used by my digital camera; by the time I found one, the trip was nearly over anyhow.
The year before in Spain when the Palm decided not to see the keyboard. Just gave up on writing altogether.
And the year before that, in Florence, when I dropped the PDA down on the bed and it sort of deleted all of its data. Seems like that was before I started doing regular backups to memory cards.
So those are the things I´m not going to tell you about, because I want you to think I am incredibly cool and with it when it comes to utilizing current technology. Any more questions?