Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of #weekendcoffeeshare, hosted by the lovely Natalie of Natalie the Explorer. Let’s grab a drink and have a chat!

If we were having coffee, I would tell you I’ve had a strange week. On Tuesday, 4 fallen cell towers in the southern part of the state and the failure of a major cell-related facility about 30 miles away caused all 5G and phone signal to go down for almost 2 hours throughout the state for my phone carrier. I even lost my home wi-fi because my home wi-fi uses 5G signal. So no wi-fi, no phone signal, I couldn’t work, I couldn’t even clock out and call it a day.

This reminded me of my Christmas road trip when I completely lost phone signal in Navajo Nation and didn’t get any signals back until I crossed from Utah into Arizona and into New Mexico. I panicked then because my aunt and uncle invited themselves on the trip and drove in separately. If I was alone, I would had been so worried because I wasn’t waiting on any phone calls.

Pretty soon, the other people in the house began to panic. “We’re toast,” my aunt kept saying while shrieking “help me,” in her ridiculous sing-songy tone. Meanwhile, my mom kept asking when we would have internet again like a little kid on a road trip asking “are we there yet?” And that’s within the first 5 minutes of the outage.

Thankfully, I didn’t have many meetings that day, otherwise, I would’ve missed those. I ended up driving to the phone store, asked for status of the outage. I wasn’t the only one there asking, it turned out. The parking lot of nearly full of people demanding to know the answer to the same question.

The store people had no answers. They didn’t know what the hell was going with on. It turned out, no one did, until about 3 hours later when one of the local news network reported about the outage.

This whole thing taught me an important lesson – never put all your eggs in one basket. I now want to switch my internet to fiber, at least it won’t go down when the cell towers go down. But darn those people in my house, they said, “You want to change internet again?” I started using 5G internet back in January but this week has reminded me that despite its reliability, it can fail.

If we were having coffee, I would tell you about the strange dream I had in the early morning hours of Friday. I dreamed I was standing by a lake in the sunlight and all of a sudden, I was in darkness, the sun had disappeared. I checked my phone and there was no signal. As quick as the sun disappeared, the sun returned.

In the dream, I discovered a satellite had plummeted to earth, which was the cause for darkness. I don’t understand this dream but I have a feeling it has something to do with what happened on Tuesday. Like I said, weird week.

Well, that’s all I’m going to say, thank you for dropping by and I’ll be back next week.