In the 2000's

You know you have lived through the year 2004 when:

*Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail.

*You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

*Your grandmother asks 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 is home.

*Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.

*You buy a computer and 3 months later it's out of date and sells for half the price you paid.

*Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to get it.

*Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.

*You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.

*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 disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

*You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

*You wake up at 2 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 like this -- :)

*You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

*Even worse -- you already know who you are going to forward this to.