I had this weird dream last night that I was with my grandparents at their old condo in Connecticut. They were going away for a week and told me they needed me to stay there while they were gone and look after the place.
At first I was concerned with work - they may not be thrilled when I tell them I will be out for the whole week, but the reasoning should make for understanding so I stopped worrying about that.
My second concern was lack of social interaction. I was in a predominantly elderly housing complex, after all. But I remembered that I had friends in CT who were no more than an hour or so away (McGoatCheese I actually thought about hanging out with you) and as long as there was a bar somewhere we could drink at, I could tolerate it for a week.
My third concern got me a little edgy.... I remembered what kind of TV my grandparents had. It was probably about 3 years older than I was and they STILL couldn't fully understand how to work the thing. In fact, in the dream, as they were heading out the door, my grandfather stopped and started fiddling with the huge knobs on the 12-inch-screened abomination, frustrated with not knowing how that darned new-fangled contraption works.
Then, suddenly, a drastically horrifying realization. THEY HAVE NO COMPUTER. This literally made me panic, and even in the dream I could feel the anxiety. Okay, think quick - is there a cyber cafe somewh- NO! THIS IS OLDTOWN USA, I'M IMPRESSED THAT THEY HAVE A MOVIE THEATRE! WAIT, DO THEY?! I'M NOT SURE! MAYBE THERE'S A LIBRARY AROUND - WOULD THEY HAVE COMPUTERS?! THAT WERE MADE AFTER 1985?! BUT WHO WOULD USE THEM!!!?
Once this random dream-turned-nightmare culminated to this point, I fortunately woke up and was very relieved to remember my big screen TV and computer with full internet access.

That's pretty sad.