I'm feeling jealous of technology

I must be using the computer too much. I've written before about why I love electricity, and how I suspect that my computer is changing my brain. Lately, I've noticed a new technology-related frustration. On the computer, I can do a few things at once -- if I have ten windows open (which isn't a high number), I can be checking my email, searching for a file, checking the playlist for an online radio station, keeping up with a few websites, and organizing my notes for a work project all at the same time. Even if I'm not actually focused on each of those things simultaneously, I switch between them so quickly that I feel like I am.

The new problem I'm having is that I want to do too many things at once when I'm away from the computer. I keep wishing for the real world equivalent of clicking (or Alt-Tabbing) between windows. But if I'm washing dishes I can't just click over to a new window and be on the phone. I have to dry my hands and go get the phone. It's like I'm an old, slow computer that can't run two programs at once. I can't be typing a blog post while I'm making dinner. I can't put on my shoes at the same moment that I'm finishing an email (unless maybe they're just flip-flops and they're right under the desk, but even that would probably be too much for my one-track human brain to handle). Arrggh.