Saturday afternoon my time, my ADSL went down. I waited a while in case it was a simple problem, it wasn’t. A call to Westnet, my ISP, and we soon work out a problem has developed at the local exchange and all their clients on that exchange are off the air. So they lodge a fault with Telstra. The ever inefficient Telstra people don’t have a tech working our area on weekends or nights, it seems, so they can’t work on it until a tech arrives for work Monday morning – so it’s about ten o’clock Monday morning before we’re up again. That’s about 40 hours of NO Internet or interaction, oh horror, how far am I behind at TR?
Meanwhile, I spend 40 hours going through net withdrawal, and have eaten my fingernails down to the elbows before the net is up again and I can get an email fix, a TR fix, a SOL fix, and a WB fix – shock horror, what a horrid weekend. I would never have survived without my room full of books to read, but even then it was a close call, another 24 hours and I would have needed hospitalisation. I still tremble from the shock.