My post last week about technology has brought out my evil twin and I can’t seem to stop…I really do want somebody to figure out how we can roll back the clock once a year for a week.  Here’s what I want:

I want a whole week where we turn back the clocks…that’s a statement in itself – I want only analog clocks that we really do have to physically turn back.  Then, I want my coffee made in a percolator and I don’t want anything coated with Teflon within a mile of my kitchen.

I want “raw” to mean vegetables that aren’t cooked…I don’t want to hear the word “jpeg” and “peg” only used in reference to Blackbeard’s leg in an old pirate movie.  I want people to call me when they need something not text me.  I want phones that really ring instead of playing a Mariah Carey tune that none of us ever liked anyway.   I want to listen to music on BIG speakers – speakers that weigh at least 80 lbs and are made of solid wood not plastic.

I want to be excited because I got 38 images out of a 36 exposure roll of film…in fact I want everybody to know what a roll of film is…I want to be yelled at because I forgot to fill the ice cube trays and I don’t want to hear the clunk of ice being made automatically as the ice maker interrupts the solitude of a morning cup of coffee.

And I don’t want to be in Lightroom…I want to be in the darkroom.  I want to hear the noise of a fan drying prints and smell acetic acid in the air when I’m ready to print an image.  I want everybody to know what it means to dodge and burn, instead of thinking it’s something to do with Dodgeball and a suntan!   I want shortcut to mean a back street to beat traffic, not an icon on my desktop.  I want to communicate with people in person, on the phone or in notes written long hand!   Which goes with wanting mail in the mailbox that’s at my front door, not on my computer or cell phone!

I want to hear the phone or doorbell ring to interrupt my day, not have an IM pop up on my screen…in fact, I don’t want anything with a screen except the front door or the TV and I want all the shows for this special week to only be shows we watched when we were kids.

Last but not least, I’m tired of acronyms…PPA, IPC, ICP, PEC, SPE, PMA, WPPI, PMDA, DWF, ISO, EST, PST, DST, BFF, IMs and they all think they’re BFDs!

Sorry, gotta run – just saw a really disturbing facebook post and somebody from Nigeria just sent me an email telling me I have a million dollars in US currency coming if I just email him my bank information…what a great day!