Four Days Without Internet
Aug. 20th, 2025 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse Our internet melted down
For real.
Image: melted recylcing bin
Our neighbors one block over and one street down had a garage fire that melted a lot of stuff, including the overhead internet cable.
Why is your internet overhead, Lyda? The short answer is that our neighborhood is dense, old (as in the age of the houses and buildings) and poor. For whatever reason, the cable/internet providers aren't interested in burying our lines. They might be now? But, from what I could tell from watching their workers, they just restrung the cable, so, no, not so much.
I'd ask if you missed me while I was away, but I've been away from DW longer for much less exciting reasons. I was telling a friend today that the weirdest part of not having the internet was that I still had my phone and its data. So, I had all the WORST parts of the internet--the ability to doomscroll, waste time, etc.--and no ability to do the things that feel far more productive: write my novel, attend Zoom meetings easily, do my committee work, etc.
Stupid.
But at least it's back!
For real.
Image: melted recylcing bin
Our neighbors one block over and one street down had a garage fire that melted a lot of stuff, including the overhead internet cable.
Why is your internet overhead, Lyda? The short answer is that our neighborhood is dense, old (as in the age of the houses and buildings) and poor. For whatever reason, the cable/internet providers aren't interested in burying our lines. They might be now? But, from what I could tell from watching their workers, they just restrung the cable, so, no, not so much.
I'd ask if you missed me while I was away, but I've been away from DW longer for much less exciting reasons. I was telling a friend today that the weirdest part of not having the internet was that I still had my phone and its data. So, I had all the WORST parts of the internet--the ability to doomscroll, waste time, etc.--and no ability to do the things that feel far more productive: write my novel, attend Zoom meetings easily, do my committee work, etc.
Stupid.
But at least it's back!
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Date: 2025-08-21 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-08-21 03:22 pm (UTC)1. I got horribly sick and crashed for the first couple of days of WorldCON (Wednesday and Thursday). I sort of barely attended virtually, but was able to watch the Hugo ceremony on Saturday night.
2. Sunday afternoon while Mason and I were out at OBon at Como, Shawn first reported internet problems and we discovered via Facebook (and phone data) that our neighbor's garage burned to the ground, thus melting our internet.
So after, I guess? Though I won't say that I had a particularly spectacular WorldCon thanks to my (still hanging on) illness.
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Date: 2025-08-21 09:34 pm (UTC)I did notice your absence, but I'm really not in a position to complain about anything of that nature, and I know that Life Happens.
I'm sorry you got sick right at the beginning of Worldcon. Viruses and the like have absolutely no consideration.
P.
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Date: 2025-08-21 11:18 pm (UTC)