Last week my email became erratic and for all purposes was down for 2-3 days. I believe, technically speaking it went all wonky. Every once and a while I would get a ton of new emails flooding my inbox and I would think it was working, then an hour two later I wouldn't receive any new mail and a lot of my sent mails would come crashing back to me. The only consolation I could take was that it was system wide, it wasn't just me.

I have so become dependent on email, as my preferred method of communication, that when I tried to contact my husband about the possibility of working a little late, I realized I didn't even know his office phone number. Normally, I just email him that I am going to be home late, I don't call. My cell phone has his work number, however, there is a reason the Verizon guy does not do his "Can you hear me now?" shtick in my library. I get absolutely no reception. Without my email I became cold, started shaking, and muttering to myself.

Of course that could be because I was standing outside, in the snow, in 6 degree weather, muttering about getting a signal on my cell phone so that I could call my husband.