Missing the Connection

[Peg Herring]

If you read this blog regularly, you've probably figured out by now that I'm having Internet connection problems lately. No one seems to know if it's trees, weather, or outside interference, but our computers have become confused and inoperative most of the time.

So what do computer junkies do when they have no Net? Growl about it, mostly. I'm writing this using an ancient dial-up connection that I kept just for such emergencies, but even it doesn't always come when called.

So the message today about writing? It's harder without easy access to every fact known to Man. I'm surrounded now by books, because I can't look up William the Conqueror's birth date with a couple of clicks. I have to page through volumes to find a map of eleventh-century England. And I actually had to use a thesaurus to find a synonym for "recalcitrant." In other words, I'm relearning patience, and it had better get here soon!