The Wired City?

Supposedly Tacoma is considered to be "the wired city." Something about the miles and miles of cables & fiber optics buried beneath our city streets and suspended in air from numerous poles around town (I'll have to check with my good friend Randy Sherman who is responsible for several miles of those fiber optics). Well, it certainly hasn't been the case for our house - at least not for the past 4 months.

But we're back and man does it feel good. It's surprising how much we use the internet. For awhile there, we had no real connection to the outside world. We didn't have internet, we didn't have phone (well, at least not a landline - we'd never cut off our precious cell phones), we didn't have newspapers, and we didn't even have TV. We were a bit out of touch with the world around us - which for awhile is really not that bad. It was pretty quiet around our house (short of the almost-two-year-old singing and playing games), but it was good.

But with the purchase of our new house, we decided it was time for our self-imposed exhile to end. We've decided to ante up and get the internet fired back up at our house. Hopefully, that will mean we'll be able to post a little more often...we'll see how that goes (there's something about home repairs that makes me think I won't have quite as much freetime as I had thought).

So from the perspective of our new home, Tacoma has gotten a little more wired and we've gotten a little more connected. Ahhh...this feels good.