| "I never go on vacation," said a
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| | vacation, at least, not one that goes on
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| Manhattan real estate agent. "And when I
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| | and on for that long ago and faraway
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| do, I have my computer, my Palm, my
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| | interlude of two weeks.What's an
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| e-mail and my cell phone with me at all
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| | exhausted and tense person to do? Here's
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| times."It seems that our tech toys have
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| | our humble but functional answer. Most
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| become the adult equivalent of an
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| | years we take long weekends, with only an
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| umbilical cord. So how can we live
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| | occasional year in which we indulge in a
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| without them?And what about now, when, as
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| | flagrant week or two away from our
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| a good citizen, who also doesn't want to
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| | day-to-day entanglements. We find the
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| get arrested, you at least have to endure
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| | possibility of frequent breaks inviting,
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| your plane trip without their nourishment
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| | and we don't get taken out of our lives
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| and comfort? Let's do a checklist of
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| | the way the extended vacations of yore
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| tech tonics that can cause us to
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| | used to separate us from our usual
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| experience separation anxiety.Your
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| | doings. We also find that most of the
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| laptop. No more making the flight a
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| | world is within reach during these
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| window to catch up with your work or idle
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| | three-day to five-day intervals.Of
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| the time away with a video game. Even if
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| | course, if you're thinking of heading to
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| you're reunited with the high-tech marvel
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| | Australia or the Far East, you may be
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| after the flight, what if you're on a
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| | doing little more than making a U-turn,
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| tropical island, marooned on the coconut
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| | so better reserve those destinations for
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| garden without a high-speed Internet
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| | the rare times when you dare a week or -
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| connection?Your cell phone. No more last
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| | dare we even mention the words? - two or
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| minute chats before takeoff or immediate
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| | even three weeks?Then again, you can
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| reconnection on landing. How bereft can
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| | always decide to move to a vacation
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| life get?Your Palm or Blackberry. Can't
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| | destination forever, especially when you
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| take either of those on board either,
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| | compare the length of the idylls in other
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| and, as you know, out of phone numbers
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| | parts of what we loosely refer to as the
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| and email addresses, out of business,
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| | civilized world.According to the
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| worse yet, cut off from your entire
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| | Organization for Economic Cooperation and
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| social life, at least, for the seemingly
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| | Development, as of 2004, in the US
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| eternal length of the flight.Your MP3
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| | full-time employees have 3.9 holiday and
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| player. No, no, anything but that! How
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| | vacation weeks off a year, while in the
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| will your soul survive the deafening
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| | UK they have 6.6 weeks, in France 7, and
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| silence?And the reluctance to separate
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| | in Italy 7.9.But do you really want to
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| from our tech tools isn't the only reason
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| | part with the good, young USA for an
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| many Americans are reluctant to take the
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| | extended or everlasting break? For most
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| vacations they once flew out of their
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| | of us the thought remains an occasion for
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| office chairs for. Most Americans also
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| | separation anxiety that we simply can't
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| fret, in these days when what used to be
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| | endure.Tom Attea, humorist and creator of
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| called workaholic hours now seem more
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| | NewsLaugh.com, has had six shows produced
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| like half days, that the employer will
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| | Off-Broadway. Critics have called his
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| use the occasion to replace you with
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| | writing "delightfully funny," "witty,"
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| somebody who has shown promise of never
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| | with "great humor and ebullience" and
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| needing something as irresponsible as a
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| | "good, genuine laughs.
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