In all that luxurious time, I’ll write with a pen and talk to people by phone and go places and do things. I’ll have to pay the piper, as my grandmother used to say, when Monday or Tuesday comes, I get the laptop back, and there’s the backlog of everything I didn’t attend to. But since it’s the July 4th weekend it shouldn’t be too bad. And the joy of three or four computer-less days will be worth it.

What do you do with all the demands of the information age? I’d especially like to hear from people who work at home and are on call pretty much all the time, but I’m eager to hear from everyone. How do email, social networking, and the Internet enrich your life and what do they take from it? How do you keep the volume of it from overwhelming you? Would you be quietly gleeful or totally dismayed if your computer were going to be hospitalized for a few days?

Let me know — but not if it interferes with your holiday weekend.