Been without phone and internet off and on - more off than on for over a week now. Signed up for new phone, internet and cable service lets see......I think Tuesday. Still no phone service but amazingly my old internet service provider has started working. First time its worked at all in 3 days. It started yesterday afternoon. I was able to read a few post here and make a couple before it went down again. I will never cacth up on everything here.
The good news is that I will be saving 80 dollars a month when everything is hooked up. The bad news is I discovered how dependent I am on the internet. Ummmm Not good. I also discovered how frustrating it can be to deal with canceling services and getting new ones. LOL
I watched the movie "Little House on the Prairie" last week. I remember thinking that the movie was so much more realistic than the weekly show. I also remember Charles going into town and getting the mail. Thinking to myself, how awful it would be to have to wait weeks or months to get information and how that information would all be such old news by the time we got it. How I talk to my children almost daily over the phone but there was a time when children left home in covered wagons/horse back or walking and maybe only heard from a few times in a parents entire lifetime and sometimes parents never heard from them again and never knew what happened to them.
I look at this age of instant information with very mixed feelings now. Having been without for just ONE week I felt deprived. That week has been on and off so I still got news, it has just been a day or two old news. But now I am kind of thinking.....ummm, do I really need to know all this stuff immediately? Plus, who determines what news is. Like the Michael Jackson Blackout. The day nothing else was reported on. Did we really need a whole day of news (news is used loosely in this case) covering that story?
