I was thinking this the other day…in a way we as a society had just started to get used to the idea of the internet. Now we can get the internet on a device we can carry around in our pocket. Mind-blowing, to be honest.
Vegetables. Unless I go to a trendy/semi-new or ethnic Asian (of any stripe) restaurant, I expect a lack of vegetables.
Eating well. By and large people eat shit food and it’s pretty disgusting.
Netflix. They could double subscription rates tomorrow and I wouldn’t even blink. Feedflicks tells me I pay less than 50 cents per DVD (including streaming). Where the hell else can I get such great service for such a low price?
Running water. I can deal without power. I freak out if I can’t flush my toilet or take a shower.
DVR.
Marriage.
Sex.
Okay, I’ll see your spreadsheet and up you one Microsoft Access. For so many things that people use Excel for, Access is a much better tool. (Note: I’m not saying that Excel doesn’t have a million uses, only that for some of those uses, Access kicks butt.)
What world are you living in?
I’m still a bit bemused by email.
I mean, I’ve been using it, both work and personal, for something like 15 years now?
I can email someone in Africa, and they can either access it almost instantly, or if they prefer, they can wait until it’s convenient for them. And it’s basically FREE.
My parents lived in Africa 15 years ago, and a phone call cost $1/minute if I started it, or $10/min if they started it, plus the whole 9hour time difference made it tricky. Once email was around? POOF! My message magically wings it’s way around the world.
Well, it’ll give you those directions, but there’s quite a long swim in the middle.
I deep-cleaned the house for a party last weekend, and I’m experimenting with trying to keep it clean. I’ve been a half-assed housekeeper for, well, my life, but maybe I can develop some better habits.
I like clean and quiet, but right now I’m having clean with good music playing - that’s good, too. 
You’re some sort of big, fat, smart-bug, aren’t you?
The world in which tons and tons of people live in sexless marriages and relationships, sadly. It was in a recent thread, how couples just go for months. When you can count the number of times you do it on one hand in a year, that’s just sad. Throw in the towel I say. This same world feels that twice/week sex is “frequent”. One night stands are certainly OVERrated, as is the general hookup culture in college, but sex with your partner is certainly underrated.
Not having a cold. Whenever I have a miserable cold, I think “Oh man, if only I didn’t have this cold, I’d be thankful for everything. I praise god every hour that I wasn’t sick.”
Of course, I never end up doing that.
Arrested Development
What’s under-rated in the Sali household? Me! I’m the stay-at-home while husband and daughter have jobs. I do all the stuff to make the house liveable and their lives easier, because I’m at home, all day, without a car until 3 p.m. I like doing the stuff, the grocery shopping, the laundry, the cooking. I certainly have time to do the cleaning, should there be any. If I need the other two to pitch in or do the chores I’m not up to, they’ll do stuff IF I ask. But I don’t think they realize or appreciate how much I do for them. I’m just there. Ask Mom. Mom will put it on the list. Mom will take care of that mess. I, good old Mom, am under-rated!
Did anyone mention a reliable car, a car that starts up and goes smoothly, more or less, 99% of the time? The old clunker out there in the garage? Under-rated!