Whilst the idea of dragging my bean bag to the top floor of my apartment building and setting it up at the far end of the corridor of which is the only position thus far I’ve found that entertains a constant and open wi-fi connection is sounding like a better idea each minute, I have today been blessed with a mild reprieve from internet darkness.

Initially things weren’t exactly looking the brightest, work’s network once again decided to take an unscheduled holiday leaving us all in pre-historic times, I always knew that after work I would be graced with the burning white light of a solid connection. You see today I was heading off to Stu’s place to guest on another episode of the HundredPennies podcast.

I think Gav, Stu & Fu all took much glee in torturing my lack of connectivity, an entire segment was dedicated to my misfortune. Bastards! I can’t complain though, after the recording was done and a few beers in the belly I finally had the opportunity to jump online again. Yippee!!

Laptop open, wireless network connected and…. nothing. No, not nothing in that the connection wasn’t working, nope nothing as in what the hell do I want to do on here? Nothing. I’d looked at my email throughout the day’s up and down network issues at work, I didn’t particularly have anything to look up or source information on and I’ve given up Facebook so I couldn’t even waste time on there. What was going on? I haven’t had an internet connection like this in five days and there was *nothing* I wanted to do on it now that I had one?! I mean, five days for fuck’s sake!

So what did I do? Well pretty much nothing, looked at the weather for upcoming day and deleted some spam. Yay, how incredibly boring! I may as well not even bother about connecting the damn thing at home! Well, actually no, let’s not get crazy stupid here, I was just tired and clearly not thinking straight to say that!

It did get me thinking though, what do I actually use the internet for when I’m at home? What is it that makes it such a necessity for me that I pretty much have withdrawals from it and start climbing the walls? YouTube isn’t that damn good! The conclusion I came to was that it’s more of a security blanket for me these days. Having your favourite IM client open and being able to chat to someone should they be available, or looking up street directions and the weather, perhaps downloading a podcast or some sort of entertainment. The reality is though it’s really just a giant time wasting device, replacing the TV as the king of couch potato amusement. Seriously, think about what you do online, is it anything productive? I doubt it, how else do you explain the billions of useless websites about people’s pets? I can’t believe I’m saying this! How dare I?!

When it all comes down to it, whilst my job revolves around the internet I’m coming to the conclusion that if need be I could, and I do stress *COULD* live without it at home. It’s never a situation that I want to experience for longer than I already have but worse things could happen.

Peace out people with internet access (I hate you all)