What I really mean is, please join me and thousands of families for Screen Free Week Turn off your screens and turn on Life. Ditch the commercials. Think of it as a Digital Detox, the way you might eat fruit only, for a week, as a food cleanse, to give your body a break from all the sugar, fats, meat and other hard-to-digest ingredients of our modern diet. It was originally named TV-Turnoff Week, but has been expanded to include all the screens from which it seems so hard to tear ourselves away.
I know: for some of us it is impossible to go completely screen free: the screen might be part of our job description, moms need to receive timely mesages from school, and so on. But we can at least cut our screen time to the absolute minimum, cut all "recreational" use and focus our eyes at infinity instead of at 24 inches.
Kalimba: two-thumb instrument photo Mark Holdaway. What: you're still here? Go away : let's get moving. Enjoy your screen-freedom, see you when it's over, May 7. Or not. We might like it so much we'll decide to extend our screen vacation. My dad has a friend in Germany, a mechanical engineer who is also an outstanding cook. It was the first time I had seen anyone choose the food to accompany the bottle of wine. Perhaps the automotive equivalent of that would be to choose the engine first, and then the skin to go with it.
In that spirit, my search for a family car had started to form a vortex around the frugal 2. The 2. What drew me to the A3 was the option of leather seats, which may help avoid the toxic outgassing of synthetic car interiors , so I went to visit the local Audi dealer. Photo by M As it turned out, I never did find out.
Just asking for the A3 started me off on the wrong foot: the dealer told me that they had none on the showroom floor, and none on the lot to show, having sold out their stock to the last specimen. I thought to myself that either that was not a smart move on the part of the dealership, or someone was desperate enough for that last A3 that they made an offer the dealer couldn't refuse.
