Our internet connection was down for a good chunk of the evening. The outage came without warning (does it EVER come WITH a warning?!) as I was busily catching up on everyone’s blogs.
Panic set in as one connection after another failed.
When I realized, with a sudden horror, that we had lost our connection, I felt a dizzying sense of disembodiment. I’m sure that I was starting to hyperventilate. Had I forgotten to pay the monthly bill? No, I was sure that I had – recalling distinctly my reaction (can we say ‘bitch’?) to the ever-increasing rate each month’s invoice brings.
Was it a hardware failure? No, everything on our end appeared to be in working order. Kevin called the cable company after an hour or so of blackout. The taped message confirmed my worst fears – a general outage in our area that they were working to resolve.
It felt like the age of darkness had descended upon the house… I felt lost. Seriously. I couldn’t surf any of my favorites sites: Instapundit, Lileks or any of the other some 100+ sites that suck my brain out through my eyeballs every night… I mean that in a good way, of course.
I was going to resign myself to a quiet evening – perhaps with a book – or even go to bed early – but, a miracle happened (OK, not really) and our connection was restored.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, I’m so shaken by my few forced hours of net-free life, that my brain is too jumbled to think about a serious blog for tonight. OK, that makes the assumption that my previous blogs are serious… Please.
At least I’m keeping up with my non-New Years resolution to blog at least one entry a day.
Ta da.