The telephone exchange that handles internet, landlines, cell phones, emergency services, and pretty much everything in my area burned down this morning. It's been fun.
We're sharing a mobile broadband kit at the moment. That's more fun. At least now I can sync my dropbox, and check my mail, and update my facebook so that my family who can't call me know that there's no zombie apocalypse. I'm not going to be online much until it all comes back. We're not sure when that will be. Maybe tomorrow? Maybe next week? Things move slow in the country.
People are coming into town, discovering they can't buy groceries or get cash or pay bills or do any of the things people who only come into town once a week do. They've mostly been wandering the main street in an aimless way looking a bit lost. They're going to be talking about this for WEEKS.
It's not a disaster. Nobody has died. As![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilacsigil says, if we're not out digging long drop toilets in the yard, it's a pretty good situation. It's just really, really annoying, and I hadn't realised how much I depended on the internet for a sheer sanity break in between customers.
BUT IF ONE MORE PERSON COMES INTO THE SHOP AND SAYS "IT JUST GOES TO SHOW, YOU SHOULDN'T BE TOO DEPENDENT ON TECHNOLOGY!" I AM GOING TO STICK THIS BROADBAND THING UP THEIR NOSE REALLY HARD. REALLY, REALLY HARD.
I'm just saying.
We're sharing a mobile broadband kit at the moment. That's more fun. At least now I can sync my dropbox, and check my mail, and update my facebook so that my family who can't call me know that there's no zombie apocalypse. I'm not going to be online much until it all comes back. We're not sure when that will be. Maybe tomorrow? Maybe next week? Things move slow in the country.
People are coming into town, discovering they can't buy groceries or get cash or pay bills or do any of the things people who only come into town once a week do. They've mostly been wandering the main street in an aimless way looking a bit lost. They're going to be talking about this for WEEKS.
It's not a disaster. Nobody has died. As
lilacsigil says, if we're not out digging long drop toilets in the yard, it's a pretty good situation. It's just really, really annoying, and I hadn't realised how much I depended on the internet for a sheer sanity break in between customers. BUT IF ONE MORE PERSON COMES INTO THE SHOP AND SAYS "IT JUST GOES TO SHOW, YOU SHOULDN'T BE TOO DEPENDENT ON TECHNOLOGY!" I AM GOING TO STICK THIS BROADBAND THING UP THEIR NOSE REALLY HARD. REALLY, REALLY HARD.
I'm just saying.