Of Internet Access and Generating Ideas by Konnie Enos

Last night I had just remembered that I still had not gotten my post ready when I found out that I had no internet access. Now, to simply write something, I do not need the internet, but I often find myself looking up something. Sometimes to clarify a tidbit of information, other times to get some inspiration on what to write. Though I think the resource I use most often when I am trying to write is Dictionary.com (Thesaurus.com) because I know the word I want but cannot possibly get close enough to the correct spelling for spellchecker to provide me with the correct one.

Since I was still debating what to write about today, some inspiration was necessary. Bearing this in mind, I attempted to see if I could get restore my connection, though I did not restart my computer. I thought my normal steps in these situations would be sufficient.

It was not. So, backup plan, hope my son was awake and could figure it out.

I was in luck. He responded quickly to a simple text and came to my room to figure it out. His first step was to see of there was an outage.

Sigh.

No outage. Scheduled maintenance.

I looked at the time, which was frankly, the middle of the night. So, getting some sleep was something I should consider doing. But deciding whether to do that or not required understanding how long the internet would be down. I asked my son when they said it would be back up.

The answer was morning.

I decided to sleep on it.

So go to bed, which obviously wasn’t just lay down and turn out the lights.

I had to shut down my laptop and put it away, and then clear other paraphernalia from my bed. All tech related stuff, like my phone and tablet, which I’d used to see if they could connect to the internet, and my headphones and lap table. ‘

Then I did get myself comfortable in bed and turn out my light. I don’t even remember if I went to the bathroom first, which in hindsight was not wise. I ended up getting up a few hours later to do that.

Now for this morning.

When my alarm went off, I was still to tired to consider getting up. Let alone that I wasn’t prepared to write anything. I also wasn’t sure if the internet was back up, and I would definitely need it because I couldn’t post without it.

I only got up when I noticed two things.

My husband was already up, and presumably on the internet, and the sun was obviously rising.

So, I pulled out my laptop and opened it. And yes, the first thing I checked was if I had a connection.

I was in the mist of deciding if I could come up with anything to post and wondering if it was too late to beg off and let Bonnie do a post today, when she texted me to let me know she not only couldn’t do a post today, but she might also not be able to do one next week either.

When my back is out, I can sit up. In fact, it is one of the most comfortable positions for me, because I have excellent support for my back sitting up. Since I am limited to sleeping on my side, laying down isn’t the best position when my back is out.

She, however, can lay on her back, and that’s the only position she is comfortable for very long when her back is out. She cannot type from that position.

Now, with no working ideas, I fall back to my tried-and-true method. Free writing whatever comes to mind until something presents itself. The only thing I can think of is why I didn’t write this last night. And of course, the fact that I didn’t get up right when my alarm went off like I should have.

I was barely getting a word flow going when the alarm letting us know it’s time to feed pets went off. Noticing that, I also realized that my husband was not hearing it. I had to pause long enough to get his attention onto the matter. Not that our tripod, Xavier, wasn’t enthusiastically letting him know that it was time to feed him.

There are two times in the day when he’ll bark incessantly. Both when he wants his bowl filled and put where he can reach it. The other two dogs are far more chill about it and just wait until we present their bowls to them, though I ended up typing this listening to Lakota chew her food.

So, that was my evening and this morning so far.

Smile. Make the day a brighter day.