Life line

Late this afternoon, my Internet connection was abruptly disconnected. After a few hours struggle, I called the support center of the cable company. According to the support staff's indication through the phone, I did every procedure for almost an hour; checking the cable connections, restarting the modem and the router, re-connecting the PC directly to the modem, and the result was still bad. The connection hasn't been recovered yet and I'm supposed to go to the retail shop tomorrow to swap my cable modem with a new one. Now I can't use the Internet in my room and I feel a kind of loneliness. As my home phone is IP phone which is based on the Internet connection, I can't even use a phone except for a cell phone. I have recognized that my life depends much on the Internet. As I had something to do using the Internet including this blog, I've come to a cafe with the Internet connection, and I'm now doing the rest of my work. Though I have been trying to do my work as much as possible on the Internet instead of on the local PC, I have to think about the connectivity to the Internet. No one would deny the power of the Internet, though it isn't so stable yet that we can use it as our life line.