I have never really thought about how much I rely on my computer and using the internet. While taking down a tree for me this weekend my dad and brother accidentally took out the cable connecting me to the virtual world. (Luckily it wasn't the power lines.) I didn't think this was a big deal- a couple of days without the internet...
Well, no internet means no phone since we use Vonage. I was able to forward my calls but didn't realize that I had to actually forward them and not use the simul-ring function because calls were going straight to voicemail.
No internet also meant that I had to find the phonebook I never use to look up Comcast to find out when they were coming to fix the problem. I normally use google or the online white pages for that.
No internet meant that I had to wait a couple of days to pay bills since I do that mostly online now. Yes, I could go to my parents or elsewhere to do this (and I did) but I use Quicken and that is loaded on my computer so I had to check what was do at my house and then use the computer next door. I know that this does not sound like a big deal but it sure felt inconvenient.
No internet also meant that I couldn't catch up on my favorite online comics or on the family blogs and I was already behind since Nate and I went out of town for the weekend and were unplugged from technology then also.
It is amazing how computers and the internet have changed our lives. No electricity would have really messed me up - I may need an emergency plan for lack of power if that were to happen for several days.
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I know what you mean. We took the laptop to Cleveland, but didn't even think about the fact that our wifi didn't go with us. We couldn't check schedules that were in our email, look up maps to the places we were going, or even look to see how much money we had in the bank. It's all so natural, at home, so it threw us off when we couldn't, on the go.
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