living in the year 2004

You know you are now living in the year 2004 when: 1. Your reason for not staying in touch with certain family members is because they do not have e-mail. 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. 3. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver. 4. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home. 5. Every advertisement on television, in magazines, and on billboards has a web site address at the bottom. 6. You buy a computer and 3 months later it's out of date and sells for half the price you paid. 7. 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 and drive great distances to retrieve it. 8. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take considerable planning, even though there's an ATM on every corner. 9. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. 10. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow and unacceptable. 11. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet. 12. Your idea of being organized is not losing your PDA.. 13. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person. 14. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls. 15. When you disconnect from the Internet, you feel like you just pulled the plug on a loved one. 16. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee. 17. You wake up at 2 a.m. to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed. 18. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :) 19. You're reading this, nodding and laughing.