How To Survive Without Internet For 8 Days
I’ve realized that without internet or a cellphone the world starts to feel like the olden days. The ones where high tech meant morose code. So here are a few tips to survive the olden days.
1. Have children. They will fill your days with merriment and the need for a stiff vodka. Maybe within the same moment.
2. Have friends who will spend hours on the phone with you, especially one who will read you blog posts from the Internet.
3. Invest in movies. Lots and lots of them. That way you can find out which ones are scratched beyond repair.
4. This one is really a sidenote: Cleaning will not make the list.
5. If you are really in need of the Internet, do not go to the Library. Go to the library to get books, but not use the Internet. Why? If you are Monk-like (the character, not the bald men in orange robes) you will see the keyboard and mouse as large gateways to the plague express.
Case in point: I went to the library to check my e-mail. I touched said keyboard and mouse. I now have the plague of all plagues. So, the solution would be to have your friend (the one you could spend hours on the telephone with) to read you your emails. Hindsight is 20/20.
6. That TBR pile can be diminished.
7. Stand in line for an hour so your kids can take a picture with Santa and then get evangelized when you go to get some free hot coco.
Real conversation:
Person Trying To Save My Soul: When you die, do you know where you will go?
Heathen Sinner: I should be going to heaven.
PTTSMS: Are you sure about that?
HS: Yes. I’m not a horrible person. At the end of the day that’s what really matters.
PTTSMS: Well let me ask you some questions to make sure.
HS: : O
8. Become Julia Childs in the kitchen, which means you would have to go grocery shopping. Right before a very large holiday I can promise you long wait lines to distract you of your non-internet status.
Happy Holidays!
And you can totally add your suggestions in the comments.
You’re not too whiny, so no worries there. Yes, I am bringing Twitter conversations to the blog.
Yeah, if I had to go too many days without internet I’d be stir crazy and contemplating the library. Oh, wait, can’t use the library here can I? Ooops, forgot the local library is closed. Oh that’s right, that’s why I have a netbook, drop me at the nearest free wi-fi and I’m happy. But then that means I have to go out into the world and deal with the locals. Yeah I’d stay home and work on that TBR pile in between trying to reduce the number of quilting WIPs I have.
Of course, you could always work on your next book while the internet is down. I notice that wasn’t on your list of things.
Happy holidays!
Well Twitter and my Blog are not separate entities. What I can’t make into a blog post goes on twitter. Though I have considered creating a blog post in Twitverse, but I don’t think I’m that witty to pull it off.
As for working on a new project…I did GMC for two characters and a blurbage yesterday on a new story. I kept editing the one book that makes my brain hurts. And I have 9 pages of a workshop, well, in the works. The thing is I just don’t spend that much time at the computer when I don’t have the Internet. Kind of like ‘Since I’m already sitting down I should write too.’ Now that I think about it, the cold may not be the sole reason for my brain leakage.
And, OMG, you don’t have a local library? That sucks. I know I don’t go to mine as often as I use to, but when I’m there, I’m there for a few hours.
I do have a local library, but it’s been closed since August for construction. Nothing like finding a little asbestos to slow everything down. Not that it matters much, the most frequent reason to go to the library for me is to drop off books for the used book sale.
OMG! I have to write these down.
But REAL PEOPLE? *shudders* Seriously. That skeers me a bit. LOL.
*mwah* I love you honey.