Eulogy for a Router

     What can i say about my router?  my router, we used to call it "the router"  it was a friend and a warrior, inside and out.  i only have limited memories of my router.  we never really got an opportunity to develop a close relationship because my router lived downstairs in the basement and my bedroom was upstairs.  what i remember most about my router is that it was always there for me during the most important times in my online life.

     Through all the good times and all the bad times, my router was the one constant in my online life.

     We lived separate lives.  We rarely saw each other.  But, what i do know is that my router was mostly dependable and carried out its duties without asking for praise or acknowledgement.  My router gave its last breath so that i could have internet.

     i was playing the sims social and finishing a quest to get an English trophy reward when something suddenly went terribly wrong with my internet.  i was in complete denial about what was happening and the next morning, when my internet didnt return, i resigned to call my isp and find out what happened.  a man came to my house and pronounced my router to be dead.  it passed on to a better place and was replaced by a new shiny router that would carry on with the same duties.

     im confident that my router has gone on to the place all routers go when they pass from this life.  my router will always be in my heart.  Thank you, router, for all the thankless work you did on my behalf, so that i could have access to the internet.  May you rest in peace.