Friday March 12, 2009. I think it’s hilarious that after my post of yesterday, Endless loops of windows and popups, cleaning up your crap, I awoke to find I was having a hard time opening my email, and of course I have several dozen emails left to download with ad revisions for the April Horizons Magazine.  And of course this is final layout week and of course I have like 2 days to finish it 🙂

I thought it was especially interesting since I woke up feeling great, really in tune and ready for my day.  I did my morning self-talk to myself as I snuggled in my bed – my typical routine.  Talking to myself as if I was my favorite child or lover or person I adored completely and knew was capable of handling anything and who I wanted to encourage into their day.

I went into the office and signed on to AOL and began to start downloading the 20+ emails I still have left to download for ad revisions I must do today and tomorrow.  It was extremely slow, so I simply decided to enter AOL through Internet Explorer.

Ever since AOL began, I’ve heard people complain about it and how long it takes and getting cut off, and I have never had any of those problems.  I was on dial-up until just 2-3 years ago.  But I never knew what they were talking about, and was just glad that I vibrated a different experience for myself.

I realized just the other day they were talking about the AOL browser, which I rarely use.  But AOL for email – I love it since I send and receive so much of it.  20-50 a day on a consistent basis that have to be read and responded to.  I’m not counting the spam which I simply delete.

So I  wasn’t worried that I couldn’t get my email through AOL, I simply opened Internet Explorer and would access AOL through there.  But it was just as slow.  The same with Mozilla Firefox (my personal fave).  So I ran Ccleaner and rebooted my computer while I turned on my laptop to access from there.  The same thing, except extra slow because the laptop is slower than the desktop computer.

I could get onto AOL slowly, but even opening an email took minutes.  I typically wait until final layout week to download the email ads, and I simply copy and paste into the magazine layout.  That way I don’t have to print an email ever.  But now I was getting nervous that I might not be able to access them in time, so I began printing them out.  Half of them I was able to print easily but images took like 10 minutes+ each to download.

I thought that some fearmongers would say this was a taste of what it will be like as soon as everyone’s business is online and the government pulls the plug on the internet.  That always struck me as funny, since of course if anything like that happened, I’d simply have to adapt to what was workable around me and be led from there to my next step.  But that’s like the rest of life, so it’s not all that different.  Just a bigger scale is all.

I admit I was a little nervous, seeing how much I depend on an internet connection in order to get work done.  Same as the telephone.  And during those times they are unavailable, I don’t feel anxious as much as inconvenienced.  Especially if someone is trying to reach me or is waiting to hear from me and are unable to by the deadline or at the appointed time.  And they may not even consider that the call or email has simply not reached me yet.

Just another metaphor for feeling lost without proper connection.

That’s when it came to me that it wasn’t an AOL problem at all, it was a Bright House internet connection problem since it was both computers and all 3 browsers.  Okay, sometimes I’m slow.

I called Bright House and got Anthony, a  service tech in Manila.  He ran me through the paces.  He knew exactly what he was doing and explained it all to me very well.  We checked to see if disconnecting the router and connecting directly to the modem made any difference, and it did not.  He reset my modem from where he was and 20 minutes after we began, I was back in business.

As usual, there was nothing wrong with the signal being sent from Source.  The problem was that I was no longer in a position to receive it.

Ever been there?

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