So here I am. Back at last via a mobile broadband dongle and hopefully this Internet connection is going to be an ongoing thing because if it isn’t, I may reconsider turfing myself from the mezzanine out of sheer frustration! I’d much prefer to take it all out on Telstra, whose lousy cables along my road rule out a phone line broadband connection, but I can’t get to them. Whatever, so far so good.
This last 19 months have been tough on me though because I need an Internet connection to fully operate Sandpiper Editorial but as the saying goes, where there’s a will there’s a way and I found I could do quite a lot in the hour allocated to me on one of my local library’s computers. In fact, my typing speed progressed to some seriously impressive levels as I raced the clock and yes, it more or less worked for me and I truly appreciated the fact that I could get back online even if it did mean a car trip first. But the convenience of having an Internet connection at home again is simply blissful and it’s nice to be able to do a little recreational online stuff as well because the clock race is now over.
To be honest, I have to admit that I did adjust to having no Internet at home but that only happened because I took a lot of very deep breaths on a regular basis and repeatedly told myself that the lack of connection was hardly a life or death situation and that there were much bigger problems in the world than me being forcibly offline. Many people were doing it much harder than me and so I should be thankful that my only real problem was no online connection. Like, I could still access it somewhere else even if it was only for an hour a week. On a world scale, it was merely a hiccup!
But I did miss it. I really, really did and now that I have it back I promise I will never take it for granted again. So I’ll be writing religiously again every week and will thoroughly enjoy getting back to regular work in general and will treasure my Facebook membership more than ever!
I’m ba-ack…!