Yesterday morning, Charter Communications’ Internet service failed across the state of Massachusetts. The web was gone, but the lights were on. So I could work, disconnected, but in a way could not.

I went outside to check on the status of the pruning project I’d got a gardener in to help with. I told him, it’s just so quiet. He didn’t understand. What do you mean, it’s quiet? was it noisy before? No, it’s just that I because I work from home the Internet is my conversation. Even when I am not directly communicating with someone, the channels are open, they are there, and anyone can speak at any moment. It’s just real quiet now.

Interesting choice of word. It just came to me that way.