Under the desk

For the past two days, the unthinkable: I couldn't get online. Since early yesterday, things have been going increasingly dead. First, beginning around 6 AM yesterday, I haven't been able to send attachments. Throughout the day, I periodically couldn't get my mail or use the web. Then this morning, no access at all. Had it not been for a few other items -- a flash drive, a computer in our office, my Blackberry (so there all you loathers of it) -- and Annie's major problem solving, I'd have been out of business. Thus, I've spent a lot of time under desks, tracing wires and cables, disconnecting, reconnecting, screaming...I think, I think, it's the wireless router, the blinking device that connects to the cable modem, that allows online access throughout our house. And all it may require is a download of new firmware but that would mean tinkering with the configuration of another person's machine, another person who's been lucky enough to be swishing down a mountain these past few days while I toil away...........Fortunately, a sometimes-member of our family is here, Sola, the 'Linden Boulevard" ('cause that's where she came from) Retriever who cares not about online anything but does enjoy a brisk walk.