Bits for Sunday, July 5, 2009

At the risk of sounding old and somewhat reminiscent, I have to say…what did we do in the days before home internet access? I have now been without it for three days and twenty-three hours, not that I’m counting, and quite frankly, I’m not sure what to do with myself!

Wednesday I had a very long day at work, so I looked forward to my get-rid-of-the-grays evening followed by settling in on the couch to peruse the new stamp catalog that was supposed to be available online beginning that day. After my hair had marinated away the grays, I grabbed the computer and settled in for a glorious evening of screen-shopping.

I hadn’t even been online five minutes before the now-familiar kicking-out of the internet happened. I waited a respectable amount of time and then called AT&T (now officially a permanent resident in my phone’s “recent calls” list.) I’ve been calling at least weekly for the past couple of months. This time, however, they weren’t able to resolve my issue on the phone and promised to send a repair guy on Friday.

Long story short, it is now Sunday, and I still don’t have my internet. And if I were to go to a wi-fi location every time I wanted to check something, I’d be completely bankrupt from obligatory shopping in exchange for internet use.

Funny, though, how much stuff depends on being able to hop online.

· I feel completely behind in everyone’s lives. I haven’t been able to read blogs or status updates. People have probably been having babies and getting engaged…and I am none the wiser. And after three days and twenty-three hours of disconnect, the chances of me successfully reading far enough back to consider myself truly “caught up” is slim.

· I still have no idea about the new stamps that came out, and while I hadn’t planned to place an order today, it’s the principle. I want to know what I could be buying if I so desired.

· My email inbox had 18 messages in it yesterday when I was able to be online at a friends’ house long enough to look for things like that. Of course another 24 hours have since passed, so who knows how full it might be now!

· I wanted to check the radar yesterday to see how soon it was going to rain on our parade (literally) – but then I remembered I couldn’t do that.

· Today was my scheduled day (brand new schedule, no less) to devote to writing a Bible study, but I couldn’t because I do all my word-studies for Greek and Hebrew online.

· And speaking of Bible studies…tomorrow is my day to begin an online Bible study…so this should be REALLY interesting.

· I can’t post the pictures of my weekend – which actually was fun after all!

· I’m writing this…which I can promptly NOT post or email to anyone. Why am I even writing??

I was going to call to see if they could switch me back to dial up until this could be resolved – IF this can ever be resolved, but it turns out my phone has been disconnected in the mayhem.

Needless to say, I’m extremely frustrated. Sometimes that’s an understatement and I’m just flat out mad. It would be nice if I had some great words of wisdom for you…but after this weekend of frustration…I don’t. And now I’m going to go in search of someplace with a strong enough signal to post this. If it doesn’t work, I guess you’ll hear from me in the morning! (As will AT&T.)