life without a connection

About 10 days ago our cable connection went down and stayed down for about 14 hours. We had no access to the internet and no TV.
We had no idea what was happening in the world, I couldn't do my real estate business and we couldn't communicate with people via email. And we communicate with a lot of people via email.
Our daughter's in Greece finishing (I pray) her last semester of college, so we do a lot of email with her.

And even though some people still send out recipe cards and football schedules, and call that, well I don't know what they call it, but the real real estate business is done online now.
The MLS, property research, property tax records, communicating with clients, blogging, even writing contracts, it's all online.
Even my fax is internet based, efax.com.

When I write contracts and related paperwork for home buyers & sellers it's usually done online with a program called HotDocs.
I fill it all out online and email everything to the buyer/seller for their review and signatures. It's very slick. There's no generation loss that occurs when you fax and refax, up to date versions of current and past contracts are stored online for as long a you want, and changes and revisions are a snap.
It works great, but you've got to have a connection, or you're out of business.
 
Now our cable connection is down again.
It's 4:30 PM here in Tucson and I'm writing this offline, and waiting for service to resume, but I have no idea when that will be.
Comcast is our service provider, and of course you can't get anyone  on the phone, you can't even get through to Comcast to find out what the &%&^&% is going on or when it will be fixed.

It's now 5:45 and the TV is back on, but still no internet.
I don't care about TV, I never watch it. I rent movies.
I want-need the internet.
6:05 PM and the internet is back, and I'm back in business.
Thank you comcast. That wasn't too bad.

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Comments

[rebecca]

i suffered the same outage. i felt like a limb had been cut off. i couldn't work on my clients' sites, i couldn't skype, i couldn't email, i couldn't manically check your blog or the mls... so i played with my kids and went for a run.