I can make fire

When camping, I've been able to rub a couple sticks together and create fire. Yes, it is a bit more complicated that just grabbing the closest twigs and introducing them to each other but....you get my point: I can do it.

Fire, along with other early inventions like the wheel, arrow heads and 8 Track tape players brought man from his earliest origins to the point we are now where I can sit in the bedroom of my youth, type a few words on a laptop keyboard and have those words available instantly at the farthest reaches of the globe. At least in theory I can.

My laptop is on its final legs and, come Monday, it will be retired. It takes about six attempts to upload anything and I am incapable if finding the cause and fixing it. So, while I am able to survive MacGuyver-like, for a week in the wilderness of Idaho with nothing more than the clothes on my back, 18 inches of dental floss and a butter knife, I can't overcome the limits of my personal technology.

This loss of instant access, combined with the impending launch of a North Korean "satellite" has me wondering what we as a nation would do if we were suddenly nuked back to an age before the Internet, I-pods and those fancy light up tennis shoes I see kids wearing at the Mall were available as readily as they are now. Could we survive having to provide for our own survival?

I watched, and fell in love with, the show Jericho on Fancast.com. I recommend everyone watch this bit of fiction and think about what you might do in the same circumstances.

For my part, I give up. For the next few days I probably won't be posting to this blog as I get the new Laptop tweaked to Bald Man standards. I'll be sure to save up for some chilling, witty, insightful and, hopefully, entertaining posts next week.

See you soon.