Which century?

[susandennis]

I've never been a history buff. I think I still have some issues left over from school. But I'm totally sucked into Colonial House which ran recently on our public television station. I've got all 8 hours of it on Tivo. I started watching it last night and now I'm half way done.

I think I'm sucked in because of the people on it. I watched most of the one they did on the 1920's but I never liked the people. I couldn't even get into the frontier one at all. But, I'm totally hook on one.

So while deeply enmeshed in the year 1628, I get the familiar WAV announcing new mail and I look up to see Comcast has finally seen the error of their ways and gotten Mom back on line. She says 24 hours without internet access is her limit. "I kept calling Comcast until I got someone I could understand. She said they were having trouble in my area."

She doesn't quite get that the emails she sends when she's not connected just sit in her outbox, so when she comes back online, I'm good for a about 3 "I think there's something wrong, could you check my computer?" followed by about 2 "I've rebooted and it's still not right" and then, depending on how long (today was 4) she's down, a series of "I'm still not fixed".

When I lived in the land of frequent electrical storms and electrical service interruptions, I used to make sure that at least one light was on when I went to sleep so it would wake me up and I could make sure the alarm was set.

Mom's many emails ensure that I know exactly when she gets back online.

Now I think I'll go back to 1628 for a while...