My house looked like we were hosting a wake yesterday. The Internet
network went down. What? How could that happen in this day of technology? Shouldn't someone sitting somewhere starring wide-eyed at a screen have seen this coming and fixed it before we were inconvenienced? Surely, this should never happen in the 21st century.
You would have thought it was a cyber- attack from a foreign country. Yep, it went down. No Internet. No Wi-Fi. No gaming consoles online. No, no, nothing. Pat Kennedy's blog, "Phones! Newspapers! Real Estate! What has Technology Wrought?" made me laugh because of my crew. They were feeling the effects of techo-withdrawal.
We have definitely become techno-holics. Once we're "down" life starts to take 
on a whole new dimension. It normally starts with, "Dad the Internet is down!" Shortly after, panic ensues. What are we going to do? Oh, I don't know. Read a book. Workout. Take the dog for a walk. Watch a movie together. Clean out your car. Take your pick.
One of the boys went to visit friends. The other one decided to bake a vegan spice cake. Whew, was it ever good! It took a couple hours to get everything straightened out, but life as we know it has returned to normal. We're all wired again, independently sitting around texting, gaming, clicking away on computers and totally ignoring 
each other. Hmmm, I'm beginning to think I liked the loss of our Internet better.
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