Broken water main + Bulldozer = No phone, tv, blog

It may be Mother Nature's fault, it may be human engineering at fault, I don't know how or why it happened, all I do know is this,...one and a half days with no technology to amuse, entertain, and communicate with the outside world makes my whole family really CRANKY!

In a way I feel guilty and slightly ashamed for being so dependent on these gadgets, I suppose we could survive without them, however, life would be infinitely less interesting. Good or bad, I must admit we do learn so much about the world and all the people in it through these means, don't you agree? Well, at any rate, Little House on the Prairie, we ain't! Nope. We'd have turned that covered wagon around and headed back into town before you could say "I'll die from boredom!".

My cable tv, telephone and computer all came back on simultaneously tonight at 6:25 pm and I dropped to my knees and yelled "Hallelujah!". (Okay,..I didn't really do that, but I did contemplate it)

Apparently, a water main about a block from my house broke yesterday morning because the temperature which had been sub-zero went up 25 degrees over night causing the pipe to burst. The village I live in came out to repair the pipe and inadvertently dug up the cables that control all things technological for myself and 100 or so of my neighbors. We were not the city of brotherly love, no, we were the neighborhood of grumbling, crabby patties for 36 hours.

Well, it's over now, (sounding as if I've survived some harrowing ordeal). I'd just like to mention one thing before I scamper off to bed, Kami, of Kami's Khlopchyk, has given me a wonderful new award (because she's nice that way) and I'm very thankful to her for it, so, Kami, thanks so much! It's the "E" for Excellent award (and looks suspiciously like the "E" for Everyone label that goes on games, movies and cd's, doesn't it? At first that's what I thought it was, duh!) I'm supposed to pass it on to 10 people I feel have excellent blogs. I will do this, but I'm not going to do this tonight because it's late and I'm tired, and well,..looking up all those linky things takes too long and the dark circles under my eyes are begging for a pillow. (am I rambling? That last sentence was a little crazy.) Anyway,..I will pass this beauty of an award on to ten very deserving people a little later.

Hope you all had a great couple of days, looking forward to reading all of your blogs tomorrow and getting all "caught up" on everything. 'Night!