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Internet down!  Telephones, down! Television off!  Email access? Blog?  Facebook? Search engines? NOTHING! ZILT! NADA! ZIP!

The last two days were my pits of frustration!  Remember that statement about Murphy’s Law?  It says, “If something could go wrong, given time and circumstance, it would.    All that I call essentials went flat wrong: computer, television, internet provider!  They all went down at the same time and I allowed ‘me’ to be sucked in … rubbed by them the wrong, and self-disappointing ways. 
 
Here’s how it unfolded: all four computers in the house got the bug, like I caught on the same weekend a ‘flu bug.”  When something fails, all others connected to it snow-balled and rolled with it. Ugggh!

What does one do without connections to the outside world?
First, I screamed.  Next, I complained silently, then loudly.  After that I calmed down and told myself, “Do something!”  So … I did.  I unplugged and re-plugged everything to check for possible loose connections and to correct them.  Once I had done the ultimate, I put everything back.  I made a wish for functionality of the pieces of equipment.  I hit one button to test.  Nothing came up.  I hollered more and verbalized that frustration. 

I blurted, “Come on!” as if it would really hear me if I yelled much louder than before.  Breathless and exasperated, I further asked, “What’s the matter here?”

There was absolutely no response from cords or outlets as much toggling, pulling and pushing of plugs that I did.  Communication lines were just non-existent. 

I went outside and took three de-stressing breaths.  I took a walk around the block when did not do any good.  I walked away from the porch where I stood for a minute or so.  Without a clear direction, I walked towards the road and took more steps leading to a neighborhood close by. As I walked, I fanned out my frustration by noting the changing colors of the leaves.  Many leaves have begun falling as a wind whisked itself up and away.  With the sweeping wind, I let go of my yucky feeling and let it take flight a-float falling, dancing leaves.  I found that moment soothing to my nerves.  I took another mile-long walk in the next block. 

I must have walked close to an hour.  I back-tracked my steps when I felt a bit tired and returned home refreshed.  I asked myself, “What did I do when there was no television, radio or computer running all day on a Saturday or a Sunday?”

Books in a basket, and the weekend newspaper waiting to be taken out of its plastic protective bag caught my attention. 

“Let’s try those,” I invited “me, myself and I”. 

I turned a page of the newspaper.  I turned another page and the next after that.  I found myself lost; NO, I found myself immersed in many other worlds beyond the clicks and pushes of buttons!