Posted on 07/20/2021 12:39:34 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Lost my Cable and internet for two whole days -due to a regional outage. Finally a technician shows up and fixes everything in 15 minutes.
I had no idea how miserable it could be to have no news and weather updates - but worse - I could not log on to FReeRepublic or get emails.
Not a crisis, like floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires or hurricanes - but it made me realize how fortunate I am to live on this Earth in this country. right now.
God Bless sod
I figured the day was coming when we would lose the Interwebs so I downloaded and digitized approximately 2700 movies, concerts, and favorite old TV shows. I’m one of those guys who doesn’t worry about watching something a 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th...) time so I’m set for the apocalypse.
;’}
Glad you survived the great blackout of 21!
Go buy yourself a portable radio. AM and FM will tide you through long days and nights of high tech emptiness. We in hurricane country always keep extra batteries on hand for such times.
Another way to while away the hours, https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/
We lived off grid for five years. No electric, no internet, no water supply other than what we toted, no phone.
We lived.
They might have been if the boat hadn’t capsized while they were out fishing
Even though I didn’t realize you were gone, I’m glad you are back!
>> I AM OLD<<
I’m old too, but by golly we’re both still here!
My wife had an assistant helping with purchasing at our local school district. Her husband worked at NASA Ames laboratory in Mtn View CA. Around 1983 or so, he took an engineering job with Boeing in Seattle and she took an office job at this then-small company named “Microsoft.” While he made some pretty good money, she made the family fortune!
As the miles unfolded on a trip, you’d have to refold the map to a new section. Dad would do that in the late 50s while doing 80 on the then-new interstate freeways in the West on our biannual trip to visit family all over the country. I can still hear Mom “George, don’t do that!” while he was “steering” with his knee, folding and re-folding the map, and figuring out where we were.
I had a field service engineering job in industrial and utility power plants when I graduated from college. I logged 30,000 miles per year driving between Lower Snailshell and Upper Pig Oink and every village in between. Dad’s lessons on how to steer with the knees while fiddling with the map came in real handy!
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