#55 Crossing the Line
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The line between civilization and savagery is frighteningly thin; in my case, as thin as a wire.
I came home from a tough week at work and my wife said those words that no modern man wants to hear.
“The internet is down.”
Internet? Down?
I contemplated an evening with no access to the multitude of on-line resources; no visiting the NPR website for insightful commentary on the dayâs events; no researching the positions of presidential candidates on MySpace; no watching YouTube videos of people hurting themselves in amusing ways with skateboards. In short, I had no way to entertain myself.
Except, of course, cable television with its two-hundred-plus channels of programming. Finding comical injury videos was still an option, even if insightful news commentary was unlikely.
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