i don't complain much.

i try not to anyway, don't really see the point in it. i s'pose at this point i should qualify that complaining is different than ranting or going off on something in a fit of rage. essential to complaining is that sort of whiny tone, you know the one, it seems to lend itself to passive agressiveness. so to the point, last night, while i was in the middle of a pretty involved IM conversation, my internet goes out. i know it wasn't because of a delinquent account, my bill is set up to autopay and calling comcast to see what was up was right out, mostly because they do my phone as well as my internet, and my phone and cable went out too.

it wasn't a huge deal, everything seemed to be back up and running within an hour or so and i was irritated not because it went out, that's happened before, but mostly because, like i said, i was in the middle of a conversation. in any case, it wasn't anything on my end, which meant that someone at comcast messed up, and like i said before, it's not the first time it's happened. so anyways, i got to thinking about what people did on a weeknight before anybody had cable, or the internet, or even the phone and i was sort of stunned because being a person who doesn't consider himself one who watches much tv, i didn't realize how much of my leisure time i spend being idly entertained. people didn't do that way back when, they worked hard all day and came home ate dinner, hung out with the family and went to bed not too long after sunset, they had to, mostly because they had to get up before sunrise in the morning.

it's nuts to think about because you can see the progression of advances in technology and the triviality of the stuff that inconveniences people. i remember how big of a deal it was when we got our first tv with a remote control and how cool it was to not have to get up to change the channel. as time continues to go by, i wonder how much sillier the stuff we get irritated about will get.

at least i didn't lose the remote.

feeling: mostly adequate
thinking of: coming home early today
music: "memoir" audio adrenaline