What do you mean by no Internet?

I think I mentioned this last week, but we are having an insane amount of work done to our yard right now to correct several problems that have been driving us nuts since we moved into this house over three years ago, most of which can be traced back to the terrible drainage system someone installed back in the day that never actually drained anything.

In the process of digging up the beautiful patches of weed and dirt that surround our house (which are soon to be replaced by something that looks more like grass and less like something you'd find in an abandoned lot), the workers apparently cut our Internet connection. Which is awesome.

Or not.

And when I called AT&T to report the outage on Tuesday at lunchtime, I was informed that my 'appointment window' was between that moment and Friday at 7pm. That's a mighty impressive appointment window, right there.

Here's to hoping they were managing my expectations a little aggressively, because I'd really like my Internet back, now, thank you very much.

I may or may not be ridiculously addicted to my laptop, and withdrawal symptoms aren't pretty. At all.

You know, I'm really not sure how I survived my cableless, Internetless childhood, now that I think about it...