Five Hours!
August 4, 2006 – 10:11 pm… The length of time Michele and I just spent, disconnected from the outside world.
Well, technically, I guess we had our cell phones and they were working. And we are still able-bodied so we could have walked somewhere. We both have functioning vehicles as well. And we did indeed drive around for lack of anything better to do.
We had dinner at a tiny little Mexican restaurant called El Picoso - Mexican Tacqueria. Great enchiladas.
But as for the important things, like internet and… well, pretty much just the internet - we were unhooked. No longer ‘jacked in’ I felt myself nearing panic. I brought up a command window and ran a continuous ping to 4.2.2.1, the omnipitent, trustworthy Level3 Communications IP address, waiting desperately for a response, checking back frequently for any change in status. Alas, there were only timeouts.
But we hung in there until the Cox Communications tech (who was quite short with me) called about five minutes ago to tell me that we were back online.
I guess we need to kick it up a notch in our offerings to Networkificus, lord of all TCP/IP traffic, lest he smite our public IP again.
