5 West Nursing

I give myself and “F” for F-fort! September 5, 2007

Oh my gulay! Salutations and apologies!

It’s been a while since my last post and all I can say is, “time surely flies when you’re havin’ fun!” Well sorta. You see, I’ve been having internet connection problems lately. For some reason our wonderful cable broadband connection decides to have bouts of disconnectitis. I’ve been playing phone tech tag with our cable company for the last two weeks who unfortunately could not seem to resolve this ongoing issue. All they can offer is “I see that your modem is not responding, we’ll have to set an appointment with you for a later date.”

After days of tinkering, poking and probing (thanks in part to the nursing process), I finally figured it out. The culprit… a cable signal splitter box that weakens the signal causing my modem to disconnect from the network. (Too bad the cable company doesn’t pay you to fix their problem. Maybe I should charge them, what do you think? ). I took the splitter box out and performed a coaxial cable anastomosis from the point of signal origin to the point of signal insertion. I just hope this fixes the problem… it’s causing me too much stress in school. (I’m pursuing my Bachelors in Information Technology online). If there’s one thing I learned it is this… we are getting too dependent on the Internet that it is a big part of our lives whether we like it or not, whether we realize it or not… isn’t that something to think about?

For all it’s worth, I think we should take a step back and try to simplify our lives as much as we can. Get back to the basics, you know, the kinda life we had back in the day when viruses were confined to the cold and worms were critters you dig from the ground. Who would have imagined that viruses could infect computers and worms actually migrate to your PC! (Don’t worry, it’s all in the software.) Imagining life without the Internet is like imagining how we ever survived without a microwave oven. My children (our children) will not be able to imagine a life without the Internet, like if they were to see a rotary phone, they wouldn’t know what to do with it!

Times have definitely changed and what was once the future is here today. Who knows what else is coming up the pipeline… virtual nursing? Hmmm… that’s not a bad idea. Do you think this can be the answer to our nursing shortage problem? Just kidding!