Balls and Walnuts
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Internet down
Cut out on us a couple of days ago. The (modem?) (magical thingie that provides us with the bounty of the internet?) has all the right flashy lights, but it’s not working, so go figure. We’re all suffering here. I took the precaution of locking away the cutlery, but you’d be amazed at how many common household items can be converted to weapons when a family’s internet is down.
I’m writing this on my office computer. On company time, no less (my 8:00 patient is late). I suspect I’m violating any number of company policies, but doctors are allowed indiscretions that would get lesser mortals fired. I’d have to do some pretty serious sh!t to get into trouble . . . I recall hearing that one doc was fired for using his office computer to look at kiddie pr0n. Serious yuck. But I wonder whether the unforgivable sin was the kiddie pr0n itself or using the office computer to view it.
Our 4th was uneventful. We were back in the heat and we stayed indoors, listening to the explosions outside. From our front yard, we have a decent view of one of the local displays, so I did watch for all of about a minute before yawning and going back indoors. It wasn’t so special that I felt like standing outside and sweating. Yeah, it was still that hot.
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Let me know when you’re back in business at home. Amazing how dependent we all are on the net. I was ready to throw my computer (in Arcadia) through the window before I left. I need to get high speed.
We just went to the Verizon store for cell phones…we’ll be entering the 21st century soon.
When our internet is down (this is now quite rare) there is an edge to the air in our house. It’s different when the power is off – then there’s little sensation that something is missing because it’s all missing and in fact you are living through a very large change in how you live your life. But when the internet is gone it is small things – entertainment, idle time-passing, looking things up – that are gone.
The Internet’s back up. Now what am I going to do with all those death traps I set up?
(A new router fixed the problem.)