Living in the Electronic Age

You know you're living in 2004 when...

You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
You go home after long days at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.
You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.
Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.

Now you are laughing at yourself. Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to!

Signs that you've had too much of the 90's

You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
You check your blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant.
Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone's home.
Every commercial on TV has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
You buy a computer. A week later it's out of date and selling at half the price you paid.
The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit cards, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
You turn off your Modem and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
You get up in morning and go online before getting your coffee.
You wake up at am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :-)
You're reading this.
Even worse; you're going to save it or forward it to someone else.