The other day my muse was after me to finish up this story I'm working on so I was switching back and forth from the story to searching for information on the internet. I may write fiction and have a huge imagination but I do research when I'm writing about a location or an event. I want to make sure that my imagination doesn't take over and distorts the truth.
In this case, I have my characters living in Athens, Greece. But they travel to other cities or countries near by so I had to be sure of the correctness and also the sights they were seeing. Since I have always wanted to go to Greece, I picked it as my central location and I enjoyed doing the research almost as much as I did the writing of the story.
But while I was browsing the net, a thought came to me. I remembered an old commercial about a bath product that advertised "Take me away!"
That is exactly what my computer was doing. It was taking me away from this quiet existence I have here to an exciting new place. A land that I could only dream about. So I looked at my computer and said, "From now on, I will call you Calgon." You take me away.
It is so true. Whether we are browsing far off lands or our favorite shopping site, we are being whisked away for a few minutes from our ordinary lives. The computer is becoming more and more a huge part of our lives and opens up new worlds and we can see exciting places and things.
So I have named my computer, Calgon and it is going to take me away!
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