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Dog Chews Through Cable...

Just as I was about to post a fun movie meme on Monday night, our cable connection went out. I hate when that happens, don't you? Luckily I'd saved the post and figured I'd wait until morning to repost...except the cable was still out. I rebooted the modem and router a couple of times during the day ... nothing. Now I am annoyed and feeling very cut off from the world. TB calls the cable company and they tell him they can't send someone until Thursday. Ack! Two more days without cable?

Today the repairman came out and we found out that our cable line had come loose (or something) and that some dogs in the neighborhood must have chewed through them. Durn mutts. We have to get some kind of box or something to cover the wire. Anyway, when the service guy looked up, he noticed that our electrical cable had also separated from our house and so TB also had to call NJL&P to come and reattach it before someone got fried.

What was TB doing home? He'd broken a tooth on a peanut Tuesday night, suffered all day Wednesday in pain and at work and when I found out, I called and got him an emergency appointment for this morning. The dentist had to pull the tooth--and it broke into 3 pieces, so TB was in the chair for 3 hours! He is going to get a bridge and all will be well. He was very happy with the care he got at the dentist's.

I was happy to have him home because I picked up a bug, maybe from Kristin. She had/has a temperature of 102 and was throwing up last night. This morning I felt kind of pukey and then just went downhill from there. I slept most of the day and would still be sleeping except that when Heidi went to get Tomas off the bus, he was sound asleep and when he saw it was her and not me he had a great big fit. Then Heidi got mad because I got up to see what was going on and to comfort little T. Argh. So now I've retreated back to the bedroom to catch up on my email and post what I wanted to post over the last couple of days.

Billy called to tell us that he was okay and not to worry--eh? It turns out a body was found somewhere on campus at RPI, the president sent an email to all the parents, and closed the school at noon. I explained to Billy we hadn't been able to get online since Monday but I had lots of questions. The rumors are flying up there that whoever it was had been shot and that someone was still loose with the gun. Great. Well, Billy is back in his dorm and knows to stay put while the cops do their investigation. I hope it's solved soon.

So now I'm going to go check my mail and dig up the posts I saved over the last couple of days. I spent normal internet time writing, playing Chuzzles, Tumblebugs and Sims. It definitely was weird not to be able to get online. I didn't like it a bit. So now I am feeling connected again!