The day the Google machine crashed

For the last hour of my life the server for gmail has not worked. I went to Black Engineering to print off some much needed material to complete my homework for tomorrow (two 30 page case studies). In the morning I will be graded on my participation in class over these articles. Gmail did not load, so I switched to the next computer. But, to my great disappointment, it would not work there. After this, I went to Gerdin with no luck and finally used a different user's sign in and Lago and yet, gmail would not load. Now here I sit in my apartment and still gmail will not load.

So this bought my imagination to the day the Google machine crashed! Oh, what a dreaded day that would be in my life! Here is a quick look as to what would happen if not only gmail, but google were to crash in my life:
I wouldn't be able to write this blog
I wouldn't know what I was supposed to be doing right now
I wouldn't know where I was supposed to be
I wouldn't know that the word of the day is "autochthonous," which if I were to use in a sentence it would be: The autochthonous fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo.
I wouldn't know the current weather of my five choices as I looked at the current news from different providors and saw the reception podcasts from Cornerstone as well as the current date and time with a notepad of things to do, while having the option of search wikipedia or google or simply look at the quotes of the day.
I wouldn't be able to assist people in getting connected in Connection Groups at Salt Company, or connect with leaders, or get those CG's to have the right number of people in their groups, or even know who is in whose leader's groups.
I wouldn't know who is supposed to get an invitation to my wedding
I wouldn't have about 50% of my homework
I would have to work to see who has written a recent blog
I wouldn't have this nifty picture attached at the bottom.
I couldn't conveniently chat with friends and family via text or video.

Wow... That's just scratching the surface!

So, I may be dependent on Google. Thank you, Google, for your free services to me and the rest of the world. Through you I my life is made simpler and faster... Or is it? Maybe if I just used a calendar, notepad, and other such things I could be as simple and efficient... But then where would that fun breakdown over the last hour go?

Father, shine Your face on Google! May it never crash...

Well, I'm off to go search through my 7117 emails to figure out what exactly that VBS set looked like that Tim Young and Jase Rohde helped construct back in the summer of '07