Tuesday 9 December 2014

Advent Calendar 9 - Going crackers...

It was only thirty hours or so, but it was enough to almost drive me crackers. I felt lost, unfulfilled, without purpose, adrift on a sea of empty loneliness. What am I talking about? The loss of a loved one? A break up in my life? A call from the doctor informing me that I had only days left to live?

No, it was worse than any of those things. For almost a day and a half my internet has been down!

The phone was buggered too, but that hardly mattered. Who uses a land-line these days anyway? But the internet? Access to the world of online shopping, banking, gaming, friending - now that was quite a different matter. It felt like that time my XR3i wouldn't start. I might as well have had my bollocks drop off that day.

Fortunately I don't really need my bollocks these days, and of course I still had some access to the web via my phone. But there's nothing quite like a keyboard to get a man all riled up, and when it comes to blogging, well, the phone just doesn't do it for me.

Those thirty hours dragged and I suddenly realised just how much I've come to depend on the internet for so many things. How did I ever exist without it?

And thinking about it, I really can't remember.

6 comments:

  1. Holds hand up as a landline user...

    Just sayin' :-)

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    1. I just use it to slam the phone down. It doesn't work with the mobile.

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  2. Sharon Taylor on FB
    I know the feeling, when we moved we didn't have it for several days, lost !!!

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    1. Andrew Height
      So hard to believe that there was a world without it. How did I ever get anything done before the www?

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    2. Sharon Taylor
      it took more time and the effort of either going somewhere like the bank or shops and you even had to get a book out to look something up. Personally I think used in the right way the intergoogle thingy is a good tool!

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    3. Andrew Height Yrs Sharon, l love the ode of pre-online,

      Andrew Height But maybe not the reality.

      Andrew Height I will try that again. Love the idea of pre-online, but not the reality.

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