Back online at last

Okay, so it's only been two days since the internet went out inexplicably. Well, not exactly inexplicably... There was a split-second blip in the power on Monday night, which was apparently just enough to completely screw up the wireless router on the main computer in the house. For a while at least that computer was online, though it wouldn't let any nearby computers latch on. Anyway, after that, last night and all of today neither the wireless nor the main computer would log on. We were all at a loss, and today I was seriously losing it, home alone and off-line. I felt positively prehistoric! I am so spoiled and dependent. But I was just annoyed because a silly little blip in the power shouldn't cause such drastic ramifications! (And yes, there were actually two blips that night, so good thing I didn't get it up and running only to lose it all again!) And it was also annoying because the router software seemed to indicate that the wireless was working, and all of our computers should be recognized by the signal. Bleh. So then tonight I went running and to play volleyball with the singles ward, and then, came home, and decided to take good old Roy's general advice ("Have you tried turning it off and on again?"), even though I had tried this method many times already to this point. But I rebooted the computer, unplugged and replugged the internet router, and imagine my surpreeze when the internet appeared to work! Almost afraid of what would or wouldn't happen, I went and tried to connect mine, and voila, here I am, back in action.

It's funny how important things such as this become to you. I mean, work, school, play, so much depends on being connected in this way. What DID they do in the old days? And funny, for all my time-filling, I still feel like I didn't really accomplish that much...