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I wake up before my alarm sounds feeling, amazing, ready to greet the day. Stretch and don\u2019t even hit the snooze button when the alarm does go off. Wow. It\u2019s going to be an awesome day!<\/p>\n

I start my coffee, feed Diva, my dog, then prep my vitamins etc for the the day and hit the on button for my radio. That done, I grab my freshly brewed coffee and head for the couch with my laptop. First the crossword puzzle, peruse my email, read the newspapers and then a little writing.<\/p>\n

Coffee cup is placed in it usual position and I\u2019m about to sit down when I realize I don\u2019t hear any music playing. I check on the system and it seems to be having a bit of trouble connecting. This happens sometimes on that device. Start over tune-in radio, pick the station hit the play button and head back to the couch confident that music will be playing soon.<\/p>\n

I open my laptop, hit the icon and get ready to do my crossword puzzle. Usually, there is a number in the mail icon of how many emails have been received. Weird. Nothing. I blindly continue waiting for the crossword to appear.<\/p>\n

The icon for internet shows a full spectrum of rays. I must be connected, right? I next click on my mail icon. Uh oh. There is a triangle with an exclamation point. Never a good sign. No new mail. I tap the triangle and an option for the \u2018connection doctor\u2019 comes up, so I click on it.<\/p>\n

I go back to the crossword puzzle page, \u2019Unable to connect\u2019<\/em> comes up. This is not good. I click on Facebook in the menu bar. Same thing. Okay, it must be the internet. Good thing I have a cell phone and not a VOIP. I call my provider and am informed that there is an outage in my area. RATS!<\/p>\n

What? I woke up early, planned my day and now this? Wait, I could turn on the TV. My personal rule is that the TV does not get turned on before 4 or 5 pm. Radio or music is okay just no visual stimuli during the day time hours. I find that when the TV is on I get sucked into the vortex and loose track of time. On goes the TV, but it\u2019s not working either.<\/p>\n

iTunes, that\u2019s right, I\u2019ve got iTunes on my computer. I can get some background noise going with that. Whew, No more absolute silence! I forgot. When I had my computer worked on, I didn\u2019t reload all of my music. AND, the stuff in the \u2018cloud\u2019 can\u2019t be downloaded as there is no internet connection! Hold on, I\u2019ve got some Beach Boy songs that aren\u2019t in the cloud so that should get me through for a while.<\/p>\n

I gather up a few quick mending jobs and the supplies needed and retreat to my couch to work. I finish those. I\u2019ve already cleaned up after the girls were over on Saturday. I have started some clothes in the wash. I\u2019ve been at this for almost 3 hours now and still no outside contact through internet or TV.<\/p>\n

What an odd feeling, being unable to instantly network with the outside world. My phone is even unable to connect to the internet. I wonder if it is a wide spread outage? I don\u2019t have an AM or FM radio handy so can\u2019t even hook up that way. How dependent to the internet I am. I rummage through a closet and find and old clock radio. The alarm doesn\u2019t work but the radio part does.<\/p>\n

Success. I have a signal and have at least one clear channel. It\u2019s not my usual listening fare, Jazz but\u00a0 Country music. I\u2019m glad to at least have reception and am able to hear a live voice. Yes, the world has not come to an end.<\/p>\n

The load of wash is now in the dryer. The dishes done. Accomplished a bit of writing now . . .<\/p>\n

Still no internet.<\/p>\n

I give up, think I\u2019ll go back to bed and start over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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