Getting a bit too cocky

Having mastered making actual phone calls using Skype and Skyping with various members of my family, I was feeling pretty good about my abilities to keep in touch. Then there was yesterday. The shuttle drops us at the campus ten minutes before class begins – truly inconvenient. That leaves me no chance to test my Internet hookup, let alone make copies or write things on the board in my classroom. However, returning from class I learned that the network was down. Then the electricity shut down. I ha been trying to get the elevator from the basement to my office floor and it was acting strangely. I pushed my floor and nothing happened; I pushed door close and nothing happened. The lights went on and off – I took this as a sign that I’d better take the stairs. We’re basically trapped on campus until 5:45 PM so there was a certain amount of thumb twiddling going on. The shocker was that we got home to find out our Internet connections in the apartment building weren’t working either. I’d scheduled a Skype session with Ted. I kept checking my connection until almost midnight and then had to give up and go to bed. So much for feeling on top of the technology. Best not to build one’s personal or professional life around Internet access.