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A couple of months ago it happened: when I tried to log in AC (as you do in the morning) there was no AC. “Website cannot be found” it said on my screen.

I stared at the words. I couldn’t believe it. And I tried again, and again. Still no AC.

After banging my head against the wall, I sat down and looked at my lonely cup of morning coffee. Usually the first one is followed by many more by the time it’s 9 am. But no more AC, no more coffee. No more chatting on the threads, no more writing articles.

I imagined that a disaster must have happened, there in Denver. And normally I would have known what kind of disaster, because it would have been on AC. But not now of course. Because AC had ceased to exist.

I thought of what could have happened; it must have been big; Sam would never have given up without a fight. I pictured him clutching floppy disks in his bloody hands, defending himself with a paperclip.Of course, I thought, muscled Russian mobsters carrying machine-guns have taken over Denver! But no, I thought again, we’re talking about Denver, Colorado, not Moscow. And surely this would have been on TV. Sam sprinting through the streets must be a sight to behold and the CNN TV cameras would have zoomed in.  

Finishing my coffee (and thus loaded up on caffeine) I finally had the solution. Why I hadn’t thought of it before I don’t know.

Because what do you do when you have a problem? You email Sam. By now it seems, whatever your problem is; ranging from: “how to fix the dishwasher” to “how to keep the kids quiet” to: “What’s the best place to go on Summer vacation?”, Sam gets the questions, by email. He has no answers to all these totally irrelevant questions of course, but that’s not the issue here.

So, I emailed Sam to notify him that it appeared that he was out of job. He’s a big guy, but he can move like lightening in cases like this. I got an email back saying that no, AC was still there. I logged in and everybody and everything  was  where they should be. I got out my hanky and wiped the sweat off my brow, immensely relieved. It must have been a glitch on my end.

But it got me thinking: suppose, just suppose, that one day AC is really gone? Would you miss it? Would you miss the people there? The writing?

Just think of it.

It could well be that you would miss it more than you realize now.

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