March 16, 2010

After two days of silence I am back!

This is what happened.

Saturday night at 7:30 our cable company lost all its services due to the severely high winds in the area.

As it turned out a very high tree toppled over and on its way down it took with it the aerial cables that supplied this neighborhood.

So at 7:30 the TV and Internet went off. Our Internet provider is the same company that provides the cable TV so when one goes everything else go.

At first they said it would be fixed by late Saturday night, then Sunday came and the promises kept coming. Sunday went without any change in status then Monday came and the promises never varied.

We even saw the technician working in our street and he said he wouldn't go home until the whole thing was fixed.

But guess what, he did go home and it wasn't fixed. We saw him again this morning at about eleven o'clock as we were leaving and he swore that he was almost done.

We went to Manhattan and didn't get home until about 6:30 in the afternoon. We entered the apartment with great anticipation. Is it on or is it still off?

And guess what, the system was fixed, the TV and Internet are both operational.

Hallelujah! Back to civilization.

I can't tell you how weird it is to be home without TV and the Internet. We are so used to it that without them life is really becoming "unbearable."

We are so dependent on life's comforts that losing them is really throwing everything in havoc. And not just the electronic gadgets. Everything around us is providing us with comfort. That applies to our food, our homes, our cars and everything else.

I am so used to my car that when I used to took it for service and left it there and I had to walk several blocks for the subway station, I felt like a bird who lost his wings (I didn't lay eggs).

What did we do in the old days before these comfort things ever became popular?

Anyway, we wanted to watch some DVD but I didn't know how to operate the damn DVD player because we never used it with the new TV. At the end we watched it on the computer which was almost as good then we listened to the radio and then listened to some music.

I remember when I was growing up all we had was a radio. But then radio had much better programming than they do today. This time we listened to the news which depressed us then we listened to music which cheered us up.

We also played an enormous amount of Solitaire on our laptops since that was the only thing that was available.

Anyway, hopefully this fiasco is over and we can live our life as city people should. Without interruptions and headaches.