Out to Eat

What’s something you do several times a day, every day, sometimes at the office, sometimes at a restaurant or cafe, sometimes on the go, but most often at home?

Eating a meal, yes. And logging onto the Internet from a full-featured computer.

The Internet connection and wireless network are down in our apartment for the first time in more than a year — and for the first time since I started posting pieces to Everything That Rises two or three times a day.

Sure, it’s possible to check email and do simple searches via smartphone and AT&T. But posting pieces to the web — written pieces, not links or tips — takes a computer and an Internet connection, even if the author of a recent full-length book about Lucian Freud wrote it on his BlackBerry.

So getting onto the web means going out. And it feels like eating out: a change, and not a bad one, you wouldn’t want to do it all the time.

I expect to have breakfast out tomorrow, but hope to lunch at home.

• 7 December 2013