instant family time

If you ever want to see all the members of your family at once, sit by the internet router in your house and unplug it.  In 30 seconds or less, the entire family will appear before you.... waa-lah!  The reason I know this will work (guaranteed) is that it happened in our house by accident a few weeks ago when our internet service had a glitch and went out for about 30 seconds. (no exaggeration).  I was working on my laptop, and saw the browser freeze up and then... one by one they all appeared before me!  I was so amazed, that I didn't even think to be creative and say "let's exist for 10 minutes like the cavemen" because we actually did that back in October 2011.  I remember it all too clearly.  We truly need this thing called 'internet' to each be in our happy place (myself included).... and then as if that was not proof enough, on the last day of school, the internet went down again, but not for 30 seconds... it has been out for 3 days and counting, waiting for a technician to appear (in 1 more day) because I guess comcast does not have enough technicians for the life and times of the modern family...do they NOT know that we cannot exist for 4 days without internet service????  The producer in me could not accept this and I was determined to fix it myself, so I drove many miles (48 or so) to the NEAREST center to get a modem only to find the address they gave me was off by one house number and I almost crumbled on the spot.... but then my co-pilot spotted the sign buried in the trees on the opposite side of the street and we were saved.  New modem in hand and 48 miles back home, followed by one full hour on the phone... still no service and we are now at the mercy of the saturday savior aka comcast technician.  Stay tuned for that outcome.  As a side note, during all this, my other revelation was realizing that Tommy has the uncanny ability to listen to several minutes of my complaining and respond with one short sentence that either sums it up or cracks me up.  This will be the subject of my next posting because I have to drive to Starbuckes to publish this because I HAVE NO INTERNET!!