Chapter Twenty-Two Overdone Over the years, I acquired a wide range of bondage accessories, mostly in the hardware category and virtually no technology-based gadgets. It wasn’t because I didn’t like the tech stuff. It was because years of experience with ordinary consumer technology convinced me that none of it was reliable. Repairing most of it was either just stupid because you could buy a new one for less than an hour of labor time from a repair technician. Replacing it became expensive and a poor investment. Routinely replacing household electronics, from wireless phones to remote controlled garage door openers got me into that mindset and it was unlikely that I would change in this lifetime. Despite this bias, I invested in a few gadgets that I thought were worth the trouble, among

