I woke up the morning after the storms to a disaster that the SES could not help. My internet was down. I spoke to a machine at Bigpond and then a woman in India who confirmed that the cables were damaged in the storm and would be not be fixed till the following day at 6pm at the latest. Two whole days without internet. This loosely translates to two days without oxygen for me.
I am not proud to say that I don’t know how to live without internet. How was I even supposed to phone Bigpond to confirm the calamity if I couldn’t look up their number?Turns out my phone still had internet. But I was cautioned (by my husband) not to use all my data in the first hour.
I sat desolately on the bed and pondered my day. My son was sick. Had been for days and was home from school. But he wasn’t too sick to watch YouTube and read Reddit all day. I briefly considered giving him the night dose of the day and night flu tablets so he could sleep the day away. He is my child. He breathes easier if he’s online. Joking. #notjoking
I lamented to my friend about the weather and the fact that it had taken my breath entertainment away and she mentioned how awful the aftermath looked. “I’ve seen the photos” she said, “it looked frightening”. “I can’t even see the pictures” I cried “because I have no internet”. “Uh, I saw them on TV” she said.
I am an internet person. I forgot that some people get their news from the TV.
The day got worse. I attempted to write without the distraction of the internet and found that I can’t do anything without the distraction of the internet which is not great because I also can’t do anything with the distraction of the internet.
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I would like to end off this post by saying that by the afternoon I had come to terms with a few hours lived off line and that I was noticing the smell of the flowers and the hue of the sky. I wish I could say I was more grounded and appreciating the solid feel of paper and pen and a world of real people. But that would be utter fabricated nonsense. I was tetchy and unbearable, I felt like I had been unplugged.
By early afternoon I had already called Telstra to ask them for more data on my mobile so that I could use my personal hotspot to access the internet from my laptop.
I literally whooped with joy when the internet came back on a full 24 hours than anticipated. It was a harrowing 20 hours and I came through almost unscathed. Almost. But not quite.
I don’t know how other people live. (Although I did take the opportunity to lecture my child on the things we take for granted and how many people don’t have clean water let alone internet access – I am a fun mum like that).
How bad is your addiction? How long can you willingly go without checking your email? Facebook? Twitter?