Lots of Sleep, a Shower, and a Dead Cable Modem

There's my day in a nutshell. Didn't wake up until nearly 8:00--unheard of for me normally. The cats were most appreciative of my movement, and were grateful to be let outside after what must have seemed like an eternity being trapped inside the house on a lovely day. After breakfast (which felt more like lunch to me) I enjoyed my first shower in a few days (which sounds pretty bad). Happily clean, I thought I'd find out what was going on in the world. Sadly, I discovered no internet connection. Nothing. Zero. Geez--it was almost like being at work :) After milling about trying to reset things for a while, I gave up and called The Man--Time Warner. They sent a very nice and knowledgeable technician out this afternoon, who discovered one bad thing after another--water in the line (which he replaced), woodchuck gnawing at the roadside connection (which he also replaced [the line, not the woodchuck]), and finally a modem that was kaput (which he didn't replace, since it was ours). So we're back up and running on our old modem, but the happy wireless house is no longer, at least until I can get a new router. Ugh. Good thing I don't have a whiteboard session here tomorrow...