We lost internet around 1PM yesterday. Seems it was part of an outage in NC,TN,GA,FL, etc for 23 hours. Thank goodness hubby and I grew up without internet and can cope, but it does make you think of how dependent upon it we are. A little unnerving to think 'someone' could just turn that off and how would we get any news of what is happening in the world?
That led me to miss my last hour of work. The kids were not happy when they got home... and since the phone signal is horrible at my house (we use the wifi) we were kinda stuck. Since we could not order food for takeout.... we headed to Red Robin for dinner. It was a nice family dinner... and one week before I have my oldest turning 18! I got the mushroom burger and garlic parmesan steak fries. Very yummy. Good family conversation which we have not had in a while with the kids crazy schedules. It doesn't allow for family dinners much. I still have a DVD/VCR player and pulled out the movies The Pacifier and The Great Outdoors to watch last night.
I was listening to a downloaded audio book while doing some cross stitch yesterday afternoon.
Today I measured the blue UFO quilt and it measured 67 or 68 x 81. I figured I need about 300 inches of binding so cut 8 strips to make the binding which matches the outer border. I pulled a 3 yard cut of light blue from MSQC sale a couple of months ago and need to press it and get it pinned for quilting.
We are very dependent on the internet here - it would be frustrating to have it be out for that long! Glad you were able to go out for dinner and enjoy the family time, though. The bear paw blocks are looking great!
ReplyDeleteOoh ! I love the Bear's Paw quilt pattern ! 🤍It's one of my favourites ! 🐻
ReplyDeletewe are all so used to having internet now it is hard at times to live without it. If we loose ours sometimes we can get it on our phone but not always out here in the country - we feel so isolated without it but yet of course grew up without it and really half of our life!!
ReplyDeleteGosh, it must be the weather--at 3 pm here our thermostat just stopped working--it froze and nothing we could would make it work!! We finally had to call our emergency oil company and they sent out a guy who brought and installed a new thermostat. He just left and our house has gotten down to 60--just a bit chilly I'd say...so lucky it didn't happen in the middle of the night, right? [File under glass half full!!]
ReplyDeleteIt is scarey to think of some entity hacking into our internet and leaving us all without it! so much stuff we use it for...
Stay warm--I hear it's really cold there, too. Right now it is 16 outside...and i am having a really hot cuppa tea...
Hugs, Julierose
Sorry to hear about your internet outage, Deb. Glad you had some old school activities to occupy the time!
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