Rant #1,368: To Have ... and Have Not

This week has been a tumultuous one in my neck of the woods.

We had that storm on Tuesday which many people complained about.

It wasn't as "large" as advertised.

Well, where I am we got nearly 18 inches, and after shoveling it all up around my house, I can tell you, it was enough.

Do the complainers want some of what we got here?

Anyway, at work, it has been kind of tumultuous too.

We have had no Internet and no email for days, and it is starting to wear on all of us.

Having both of them knocked out since the storm hit has been exceptionally horrid at work.

Our company puts out several trade publications, and without Internet and email, we have been sunk all week.

We have been looking to alternative avenues, and it has been tough.

I have relied on my smartphone, which is able to get the Internet, for help.

I have directed all the people we deal with to send their material to my personal address so I can see what they are sending, but I also want them to send the stuff to my work address, for I hope, one day, to be able to use that once again.

We get so much material in via email that it is really essential that we have it.

And we do so much research on the Internet that not having it has made the week, quite frankly, a pain in the butt.

Yes, I have my phone, but using it so extensively--for probably the first time ever--is hurting my eyes big time.

Honestly, you don't know what you have until you don't have it anymore, and that is what we are going through at work.

I guess you can say we are managing, and on my end, I know that I am, but hopefully, this problem will be taken care of ASAP, because even though we are managing, it is making things so much more difficult.

It makes me think of what we did before Internet, before email.

Of course, we spoke on the phone so much more, and when faxes came in, well, that was the rage.

We deal with the government, the military, and let me tell you, everything is done through email right now. They made that changeover more than a dozen years ago, and they will never go back to what it once was.

But now, we are so dependent on the Internet and email that it really makes you take a step back when you don't have it anymore.

I am hoping we get it back today, but I am not holding my breath.

While you surf the Web yourself, keep your fingers crossed for me.

Speak to you again on Monday.