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March 8, 2007
Reporter's query: Because of your computer, do you seldom have to leave the house?
Do you work from home, browse the Web for fun, have groceries delivered by Peapod, movies by Netflix, everything else from Amazon, eBay and the like, so you seldom have to leave your house?
If your answer is something like, "Yeah, I even bowl at home with Nintendo Wii," or, "Even the dog groomer comes to me," Providence Journal reporter G. Wayne Miller would like to talk to you. (No, you don't need to leave your house to do this.)
If you're willing to share your tale, post a comment here so we can pick up your email address (it won't display publicly) or email Wayne with some details of how you've configured your home life so you rarely have to leave it.
We do a lot of Web-enabled cocooning at our house, but not this much.
Posted by Sheila Lennon 
at 6:00 AM | Permalink
I have a chronically ill pet, whom I don't like to leave alone, so while I don't completely cocoon, I do a lot.
Amazon has turned into what the late lamented Sears catalog used to be, a place to find just about anything under the sun, with the caveat that you do have to check on the sellers' feedback reports. The buyers' reviews of the products are another very helpful tool. I do wonder if manufacturers ever read those, and if a lousy product rating prompts any changes.
in the past year or so I've bought a powered lawn mower (forgive me, environment, I'm in the process of phasing out my lawn, which has grass too tough to mow with a push mower), among numerous other things from amazon.
I buy movies from Movielink, so no trips to the mailbox, even, and no dvds even temporarily cluttering up the house. I sure wish some place would start renting a ton of movies from the 1940s-1960s.
I buy books from an independent bookstore for delivery thru the mail, that's something I never buy from amazon. I used to use the library web catalog to ask for inter-library loans of books, and time them so I could pick them up in one swoop, but the catalog was "improved" some months ago so it is unreadable by anyone over the age of fifty, and much more awkward for anyone of any age, so my library use has fallen to zero.
I only occasionally resort to peapod, a grocery trip is my main out of the house trip, because the deli at Dave's is so much better.
Ebay I use for replacement, parts or whole, of old stuff that breaks. No modern answering machine is as good as the old indefinite recording time of the old analog ones, which were selling for over $100 apiece the last time I looked. Plus for my hobbies.
Posted by: joyce on March 13, 2007 5:30 AM
