The phone company giveth, and the phone company taketh away.

Yesterday the phone company decided to take away both voice and internet for 24 hours. No particular reason. The weather was fair and warm. No ice, snow, or sleet. No wind, rain, thunder or lightning. Everything was boring, so, just to pass the time, the phone demons decided to take down my service.

Maybe it was a delayed reaction to last week’s solar flare. Maybe a squirrel got into the junction box and gnawed through the wires.

Anyway, I’ve got a day’s worth of catching up to do. A ton of email to read, including a lot of tips for last night’s news feed. It will take me a while to go through everything. However, during the downtime I prepared a couple of posts, so they will be up fairly soon.