Technology manages to leave me with the warm feeling once again. The feeling of connection. It always feels so good, until it's taken away from you. Then you learn to live without it. You get used to it. The pounding of the keys and the late-night chess games and conversations are a thing of the relative past. They don't mean much more. Then, you find that there is life outside of the computer, after all. It's out there, it's breathing and seeing and writing. It's life outside of the screen. And what do I do when I get the technology back? I dive right in, and start living once again.