Friday, June 24, 2005
Back online
I'm baaaaack.
Everything went amazingly smoothly with replacing my hard drive and reinstalling all the software and files.
Except one thing. Somehow, we got totally disconnected from the Internet. Nothing worked to get us back up. We finally had to get a service rep in from the cable company to figure it out. I still have no idea what caused the problem, but whatever it was, it's fixed.
Two and a half days without Internet sure shows you how dependent you are on it! It also shows how distracted you can get by it. Our three kids at home, who are usually fighting over Internet time, read, watched videos, got outside, and generally found their daily routine to be an entirely different experience than usual.
My wife Joanne got a lot more things done around the house. And I found myself realizing constantly how dependent I am on access to the Internet. Questions that came up or tasks I needed to do for work were constantly cut short as I realized, "Oops, I can't go online to check this out."
But we're online again, and things should be back to normal until Monday, when we head off for Joanne's parents to deal with their admission into a nursing home after her Dad's latest hospitalization.
Yes, life remains on the unusual side for us.
Jeff
I'm baaaaack.
Everything went amazingly smoothly with replacing my hard drive and reinstalling all the software and files.
Except one thing. Somehow, we got totally disconnected from the Internet. Nothing worked to get us back up. We finally had to get a service rep in from the cable company to figure it out. I still have no idea what caused the problem, but whatever it was, it's fixed.
Two and a half days without Internet sure shows you how dependent you are on it! It also shows how distracted you can get by it. Our three kids at home, who are usually fighting over Internet time, read, watched videos, got outside, and generally found their daily routine to be an entirely different experience than usual.
My wife Joanne got a lot more things done around the house. And I found myself realizing constantly how dependent I am on access to the Internet. Questions that came up or tasks I needed to do for work were constantly cut short as I realized, "Oops, I can't go online to check this out."
But we're online again, and things should be back to normal until Monday, when we head off for Joanne's parents to deal with their admission into a nursing home after her Dad's latest hospitalization.
Yes, life remains on the unusual side for us.
Jeff
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