Day 8 and still no Internet. I’d love to be able to say that I’m so above the technology that is overriding our lives that I have been oblivious to the disruption in our service, but I can’t. It seems a little ridiculous that a blogger with no access to her blog, or anyone else’s for that matter, would be sanguine about a loss of world wide web service.
At this point, we are not even sure what has caused all of this and where we are on the path to recovery. We think it began with a dead DSL modem, but no one with our provider was able to verify that. Mr. Husband, unable to cope with the idea of 3 teenagers, a wife who writes and a lack of access to Internet poker decided to circumvent the 5 day wait for a service person to come to the home and change from high speed to wireless. This seemed like a good idea until we factored in the fact that our study centre is in the basement, far from the necessary window to read the signal, that it took almost a full day on the phone with a tech person to install it and that after having done all of that, the provider refused to actually turn our service on for 4 days.
Now we have two systems, neither of which work and by the way, our home phone line died in the middle of all of this.
No Internet in our house means no homework capability, no ability to tutor my clients, a lack of ability to prepare for school from home, unanswered messages from equally dependent friends who now think I am ignoring them and cannot even reach me by phone, because the line is down. It also means no opportunity to blog of even worse, read the blogs of my co-urbanmoms. I’m feeling so out of the loop. I fell behind all summer with cottage dial-up that crashed on a regular basis and couldn’t download the urbanmoms page without freezing. I was slow getting started up again with back to school September and now that my fingers are itching to do the walking across the keyboard, I have no access.
The company, who shall be nameless, but who is not blameless in my house these days assures me that we will be up and running by midnight tomorrow. That takes us to 10 Internet free days. Take my TV, my stereo, my chocolate, my glass of wine, my husband, my dog, but please, please, please, don’t take my Internet!!!
Good GOD! I cannot imagine life without my internet connection. I remember back in the days when I worked in an office (likely for the big bad old company you’re complaining about above…well, actually I worked for both! Bell for a few months and Rogers for 8 years!).
ANYWAY: from time to time THE NETWORK WOULD GO DOWN. And it would be like those days in high school when you showed up for English and the teacher had somehow, unaccountably, forgotten to be there. Some people would party, some would go home, some would wander around, lost, and others would sit at their desks, patiently waiting. The point is…in today’s world we couldn’t, simply COULDN’T work without our computers.
FWIW, I used those days to clean up my in-box and do some “filing” hahaha…funny story there, too…I boxed all my files when I went on mat leave with baby #1, came back to work in the same job for 2 years and never opened them again until it was time for baby #2. Those old bankers boxes are still in my basement, collecting dust. Oh well, all the important files were ON THE NETWORK anyway 😉