Over the past week and a half, I have experienced the terribly intermittent internet. The internet trouble that I have had recently has interfered with my life greatly. Not being able to connect to the internet has put an immediate stop to the addiction known as "Grey’s Anatomy" and "Clash of Clans." When I realized that it was not just an issue with the modem being updated, I called the company we pay for our internet. They said that they would send someone out in the next four days to come look at it. So for the next four days, I was left without the ability to get on social media, access my job schedule and I have even had issues with texting my friends. While I have had issues with the internet, it has not been all bad; I have gotten to better connect with my friends spending more time with them in interactions in person.

With the absence of the internet, to get online it has been a challenge of creativity just to log-in to my bank account. Writing this article is a great example, I am writing this on my phone at my neighbor’s house. Getting work done has been rather a tough issue of late. I wish that I had not used all of my data on my phone. It is upsetting that I am not able to connect to anything or anyone. While I have been offline I have gotten to spend more time with my friends and family in person. I have gotten to know them more. I have even gotten upset with my friends and family for being on their phone while I am with them. It has given me a little perspective about how I shouldn’t stay on my phone or the internet all of the time.

It took a long time to get my internet repaired. The whole lines of my house had to be restrung from my house to the street. It took the repairman about an hour and a half to finish restringing the internet cable. Once it was reconnected, the modem started working again. The repairman told me that the cause of the unbearably slow internet was from the squirrels chewing through the cables. He said that once there is a hole in the cable, every time that it rains the water will fill up the cables and the internet will not work until the cables dry up fully.