Internet

I shot myself in the foot yesterday....not literally.  Someone asked me how our internet is in Ghana and I responded with "not as bad as it could be...we've been lucky and haven't had any real issues."  It's gone out for a few hours, but no more than 24 at a time.  That's considered good internet in Ghana.

We had a few issues last night with it going in and out, but I thought it would all be fine in the morning.  WRONG!  We wake up to no internet at all.  I try to reconfigure it, reset, etc and it doesn't work.  I take one of my devices over to a neighbor to see if I can connect to her internet and VOILA, I can.  So that means it's my internet that's having problems.  UGH!

Thankfully, after several hours of frustration, I figured out the issue for 3 of our 4 devices, but man was I annoyed!  The internet is our life-line here.  We have the magic jack that allows us to make and receive phone calls from the U.S.  No internet = no magic jack= grumpy family.  No internet = no amazon ordering = grumpy mommy.  No internet = no mindcraft = grumpy kids.

I'm grateful I was able to get it figured out quickly.  There have been times when our friends have gone without internet for 2+ weeks at a time.  I need to count my blessings....