Does anyone remember the good ol’ days? Were they really that good? I’m not even sure.

The thing that got me thinking about this was the fact that we lost the internet at work for a couple of hours today. What exactly did we do before the internet? I found I could occupy about fifteen minutes of time before I ground to a halt. I sat and stared at my laptop for a few minutes and thought, “Huh, this is fun.” Every time I thought of something I could do until the DSL started working again, I realized the thing I was thinking of doing required the internet. That’s pretty pathetic I know, but it’s just the way it was. Maybe not everyone has a job so dependent on the web, but if you do, you know exactly what I’m talking about. It stinks. I thought of going home and doing research, but then I realized I would have to VPN into the office to do anything with the research. Oh yeah, that would mean the internet would have to be up and running at work. Interesting.

So, I finally made productive use of my time and finished up a query letter that I’ve been working on for the past month or so. For those of you not in the know, that is a letter I’ll be sending to prospective agents to see if they would like to respresent me in my effort to sell my manuscript. Pretty cool, huh? I actually did something worthwhile without the internet. Problem was, then I needed to send it to someone to get their feedback. Oh yeah, the internet’s down. How I longed for the good ol’ days!