Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Looks like the correct answer is First half. If you want to cheat, now is the time to answer the poll. They're not sure if they'll be able to fix it, but they're going to give it a try.

Pro tip: don't vote for right on time/early - The start of the window has passed and they're not here, so it's no longer possible for that poll option to be right in this timeline.

I'm hoping they arrive sooner rather than later because they don't want interaction with my cat (my cat is also likely to just hide from people who aren't me, but she's cut off from the room she spends the most time in until that's done so I don't have to chase her down if she decides to be uncooperative later)

When will the Internet repair tech arrive in relation to the appointment window?

The cat is insisting on hugs. It's warm.

(old Internet wire was broken by part of the neighbor's tree falling through it)

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I'll be doing the baking for the shop (first 2 people in line for that job are both taking some vacation time and I honestly like doing that job every now and then) so an early morning, then I have an evening appointment for someone to replace the Internet wire running to the house which I apparently need to be present for.

The phone menu doesn't seem to have an option for "I can see the broken cable and someone needs to come out and replace that." So no wired Internet until the evening after tomorrow.

Turns out Internet access has not been restored at home because a neighbor's tree branch fell on and snapped the cable in half.

Time for coffee.

I'm always kind of surprised at how well the phone tethering works for gaming, even though I know enough about how that works under the hood that I really shouldn't be.

I've received 2 emails letting me know that Internet service at my house is down. (Phone still has Internet and tethering works, but will get really slow if I need to use that too much.)

UPDATE: While typing the above, I got a text message letting me know they think I have Internet at home again. I'm at work and haven't set up anything that would let me check that.

The rain was a bit too hard for me to want to be roasting coffee in (that's a rare problem for me to have) so it looks like I'll be staying late to get that done after the shop closes.

O HAI, I found my cat in a video game.

Once upon a time, a syrup company had one called Vanilla, but they didn't have one called French Vanilla (because there's absolutely nothing French about vanilla), but coffee shops were having a problem because gas stations were doing something named a "French Vanilla Cappuccino" and people were apparently going into places that offered a real cappuccino and refusing to order the vanilla one because they wanted French vanilla. So they made a new French Vanilla SKU but put the same thing in it.

The cat was a little gassy this morning.

I guess it's time to get hugs from the cat.

So someone is working on that disc goes in the funnels game that everybody was addicted to in that episode of TNG for Apple's HMD thing, right?

Got a pizza and now the cat has decided to climb into my lap.

Got donuts today. I still have a couple left to eat later.