<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11087362.post-111265056195094503</id><published>2005-04-04T17:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-04T17:36:01.950-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Panic!  No Internet Access for a Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Whew. I'm back! I couldn't connect yesterday and naturally figured my computer was at fault. It has been acting up lately and needs a serious scrubbing. If I knew how to scrub it, I would!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;I remembered to call my provider before I left work today. It turns out a bridge went out due to flooding and took essential cable with it ... 50 miles away. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;But just in case I can't get online at home ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;What do I do if my computer fails me? Because I like to have &lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;what if&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; alternatives ... and because I'm still not 100% sure I'll be able to get online at home, I stopped at the public library to get online for an hour ... just in case. I've had my fix and also took care of some essential transactions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;How addicted am I?  I'm so addicted that ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Well, if all else fails, I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; go to the public library!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11087362-111265056195094503?l=morepearlsthanwhine.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://morepearlsthanwhine.blogspot.com/feeds/111265056195094503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11087362&amp;postID=111265056195094503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11087362/posts/default/111265056195094503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11087362/posts/default/111265056195094503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://morepearlsthanwhine.blogspot.com/2005/04/panic-no-internet-access-for-day.html' title='Panic!  No Internet Access for a Day!'/><author><name>Lindie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07959232908785351347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='05647590535953643370'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>