Back to 1996

I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly patient person. Of course, there are things that will cause me to become upset or irritable: slow drivers in front of me, not being able to leave when I want to go and children. Today I was reminded of something else that upsets me: a slow internet connection. I have been taken back in time to the year 1996, when I would plug the extra phone cord into the computer and run it all the way downstairs to the phone jack. I would then patiently sign on to AOL and listen to my computer dial up its connection. Those were some ground breaking times. Nothing about the slowness then bothered me, but it’s because I didn’t know any better. I have been exposed to faster and to regress like this is criminal! I would even say that my computer was faster then, than it has been all day today.

I am typing this blog in Word, because I don’t know if I will even be able to connect to the internet to post it today. When I woke up this morning and tried to check my email, it took me 15 minutes for gmail to load and for me to be able to sign in.

It’s the simple things that we take for granted. I don’t remember the last time that I had to sit and stare, patiently, while the computer loaded. If I did feel like the computer was taking a long time before, I now realize that I exaggerated it, because believe me, nothing, NOTHING, takes as long as this computer has taken today. I could have baked a cake or mowed a lawn in the amount of time I have wasted today just sitting and staring. Don’t forget about the amount of faith that I have invested in this computer and cable company. Every time I close a tab or open a tab, I think that that is the time that it will be better. I am wrong. It’s a little disheartening to think that I have so many internet activities planned for tomorrow and I don’t even want to attempt them because it may result in me turning into the Hulk. I’m a calm person. I like to be calm, I don’t like to put myself in stressful situations, but I’m feeling like I’m running out of options here.