I don't know what I would do without internet or my cell phone. I don't have any other phone at my farm because they were charging a poll fee & there was no way I was going to pay over $100 for a land line. I ended up having to lower my cell phone minutes to be low just to afford it & I made sure that it wouldn't accept texting as it would cost me even $5/month that I didn't have. Figured that if anyone had anything to say they could just call & use the minutes I pay for.

Internet....can't live with since I found became familiar with in in 2003. Found out what wonderful research can be done on it for school, then when my Mother was Dx'ed with cancer, it helped me understand what was happening (even if she was in denial). I find that with the internet I have not, there are days that I end up without the internet after a large storm hits. During the ice storm...no electricity anyway. The flood this year flooded the equipment on the water tower & the lightening keeps striking it during the storms. I have so much work to do around here most of the time that I end up going days without getting onto the internet. I find it valuable in trying to fix things around my farm as I can usually find information that gives me the "how to". I also use the internet for some of the studies & information that I am working on learning. I would be completely LOST without my internet.

I have a friend who is 92 years old. I tried to teach her how to use the internet & email, but it just wasn't her thing. She has a cell phone that she buys minutes for so that she has it with her around her farm when she's away from the house. She wants to learn how to use the word processing part of the computer, told her to let me know when she wants to take the time to learn & I will help. My mother who would have only been 85 was less able to deal with technology than my older friend. I am the technical one around here....anyone needs something fixed, or wired up correctly....they call on me....or more like them mention that they are having problems & I just fix it for them.....from TV wiring to the satalite to getting their computers wired up correctly. Seems that all my years of working with hardware when I was a firmware engineer in aerospace was worth something after all...lol.