Day 03 of the
Song-of-the-Day/May yesterday turned out to be a nightmare…yes, I had to spend
one night without the internet. Now, don’t get me wrong, every so often, I like
to go without access to the interwebs. You know, to go off the grid, to take a
break from the numerous feeds of information I track multiple times throughout
the day. This is, of course, by choice. Therefore, yesterday, after a 9 hour
day of ethical research training, the only thing I wanted to do when I arrived
home was to catch up on my Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr feeds, then put on name-of-my-latest-guilty-pleasure-television-show,
pop some popcorn and bliss out. But then, and only then, the nightmare began…
Unplug. Restart.
Unplug. Restart. Phone the cable company. Finally, the verdict was that I
needed a new modem. What?!? A technician can’t get out until Tuesday? How dare
you expect me to go from Friday to Tuesday without the interwebs? Who does
that? Luckily, a fiend offered to drive me over to the service center this
morning to swap out the modem (however, this has not fixed the problem, thus
far).
I found myself
flipping through the limited basic cable on my television. I hadn’t watched
television in I can’t remember how long…and I can report, commercials still
annoy me. After several rounds of flipping, I watched a replay from a Braves
baseball game. Or at least I thought it was simply a replay on a sports news
channel. Then I realized, this mystery channel was airing the entire game and I
caught it at the 8th inning. Wait, this was Fox Sports South
channel. How as I accessing only one premium channel out of all the channels? I
don’t even have TBS! What cable gods decided to reward me for my lack of
internet access? This random gift from the universe made my night last
night…and incidentally, my day today, since the modem does not appear to be
working either.
And thus, for May 3rd to May 7th,
there is no song of the day, but rather, the imagined sound of a baseball game.
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