So I was happily surfing the web when all of a sudden my internet crapped out today. Well no problem, just go downstairs, reset modem and done. Only that didn't work. So I switched on the T.V. to see if the service channel said anything about it........blue screen, no connection. With a sinking feeling I picked up the phone only to find out there was no tone....cut off as well.
Stunned and confused I wandered into the street to tell random passersby of my terrible plight when I noticed a big hole in the ground at my neighbours house with 2 men with spades standing next to it that gave me a rather worried and guilty look.
So these 2 builders had inadvertently cut through our entire cable and we're really sorry about it, but that of course does not help 1 iota when you are without internet unless something is done. So I called my cable company and to my horror they explained that they had no available technicians and that the earliest they could help me was in the afternoon of the next day.
Noooooooo!
Distraught I turned my mind to the horror that was going to be 24 hours without internet. No WoW, no Diablo 3, no forums, no comics, no way to download anything to occupy my mind, nothing. Didn't help that it's a terrible day with lots of rain here, so spending some time outside in the garden was out too.
I was just starting to calm down and get my head straight and focus on making plans how I was going to spend the next 24 hours when the builders from next door came by to tell me they had bought 2 connectors and had hooked my shit up again.
Glorious relief flooded me then, but the shock has still to wear off and the topic kept bugging me: What on earth would I have done for 24 hours without internet?
The first thing that came to my mind was to listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks narrated by Stephen Fry, cause I have those on my old hard drive still and it's been a while since I listened to them.
TL;DR: What would you do if disaster struck and you were without internet for 24 hours?