I'm traveling by train to NY to be part of an interview for 60 Minutes on slot machine addiction. Given that it terrifies me to be without my computer/internet access for those nine days, I decided to not take my computer.  Twenty years ago, I blissfully rode trains without my computer.  I need to re-find that woman.

Just in case one of my readers is a desperately misguided thief who knows my address and wants to burgle a rack of second-hand clothes, five shelves of books and four spoiled cats, I do have a house-sitter.

I expect to have a full-scale panic episode (or fifty) caused by internet withdrawal at some point on the trip.  The good news is that I am willing to experience that.  The bad news is that I won't be able to go on-line, read this post and laugh at myself.