Living Without Internet

Dear Diary,
Day 10

It has been ten days since my husband, the so called love of my life, lost his temper with the dear folks at AT&T and cancelled our service.
All of it.
(except cell phones)
(thank God for cell phones)

Now, I know that having things like laptops and high speed DSL is something of a luxury, I suppose, but it's a luxury I've come to rely on like having teeth.
Maybe that's a bad analogy...
I'll try again.
It's a luxury I've come to rely on like bread and water.
(except I don't eat bread since it has gluten)
It's like water, ok? Let's just say it's like water!

It's the first thing I grab in the morning and the last thing I need at night. I use it all day long for things both pleasure and mandatory. So many things it has never occurred to me to count. In fact, I never realized just how many things in my household depend on it, from my printer to my kids school lunches.
(just to be clear... my printer does not use water only wireless service evidently)

I keep telling myself that this is just temporary. That someday soon the so called love of my life will choose a new Internet provider and they will come out to the house to restore my faith in all things holy, but right now... I'm not feeling the love, if you know what I mean.
And I hope you do, because I'm not entirely sure what I meant by that.
I just know that life without water is pretty dry.

So, a warning to you all... The next time you are having problems with your home phone and Internet service and are forced to call that never ending help line of automated menus and elevator music hold lines for more than two hours of run-arounds and blank apologies... please think twice before losing your temper. Have a glass of wine, take a Valium, whatever it takes, just don't get mad and cancel the service without a new provider ready in its place!

Ok, that's all I have to ramble about for now. I'm off to do non-internet based tasks like hand washing my sweaters in the river and re-grouting the tile around my kitchen sink...
Not that I'm bitter.



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