As you may or may not know or care, I don’t have an Internet connection during the day any more. This leaves me feeling, well, disconnected. I don’t get the news, I can’t look up answers to questions that pop into my head, I can’t listen to Pandora, and worst of all, I end up spending hours of my own time, after I log on at 6:00 pm, doing work tasks that can’t be done during the day. So that’s made me feel almost as disconnected at night, when I am on line, as I feel all day when I’m not.

And all that’s on a good day. Today was different, in that I didn’t get on line until 7:00 pm, and then I had to look up some things for the Boss, unplug the modem so I could plug in the fax and send him the information he needed, and repeat and repeat until I finally asked him if this was the last time. He took the hint and left me alone, after 8:00 pm. That’s too long a work day, for what I get out of it.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been dealing with for the last two weeks, or however long it’s actually been since I managed to post an entry. And the next week or so won’t be any better, because we have eight bids going in next Tuesday and Thursday. It’s not something we can do a half-baked job on, either, because we really need the work. I’ll definitely be back here if I can, or if anything more interesting happens. Otherwise it would just be another entry just like this one, and who needs that?

Now you could say, as I’ve said to myself, that I could keep connected all day by posting to Twitter from my cell phone. I’m all set up to do that, but I have a couple of problems. First, I’d have to decide whose tweets I want sent to my phone, because if I didn’t limit them I’d spend the whole day reading 140-character paragraphs. And second, I’m the world’s slowest, most awkward texter. It just isn’t something that I have any facility for, and I need lots of practice. The way I text now, that’s what would take me all day, just working it out tweet by tweet. So I don’t do that, either.