Why no post March 5? internet failure

When you live in a rural area, you typically have two standard choices for internet, painfully slow, expensive dial-up or expensive satellite.  The problem with dial-up should be obvious.  The problem with satellite is that, if like us, you are reliant for satellite for television, and you live out of range of emergency weather radio signals and you can’t hear warning sirens, in a storm you can lose all ability to have any warning of tornadoes at all. We are usually grateful to have a tiny local company with these funky cell towers that deliver relatively high-speed internet.  We pay a bit more for it than we would for dial-up but we pay less than we would for satellite internet.  The only problem is that the company only has two part-time employees.  They both have day jobs.  One of them (the real techno geek) has two days jobs.  I noticed the internet was acting up yesterday but didn’t call.  I should have.  By last night, it was gone all together.  Deep sigh.  And they were far away from the answering machine that would have told them that we couldn’t connect.  Bigger sigh.  Oh, well.  At least WordPress has an “edit date” button, although it makes me feel like I’m cheating.

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