48 hours without internet

• ISP went down tuesday 14:00
• Called support
• They said
• "technician dispatched"
• Which means
• Nothing
• Decided to treat this
• As productivity retreat
• Made list of goals
• Learn rust
• Clean garage
• Write three blog posts
• Instead
• Stared at router
• For six hours
• Day two
• Sorted books by spine color
• Then by author
• Then by
• "books I pretended to read"
• Vs "books I actually read"
• Pile was embarrassing
• Noticed bathroom cabinet
• Hanging off wall
• For eleven months
• Found screwdriver
• Fixed it
• Feels weird
• To be proud of
• Something so small
• Internet came back
• At 14:00 exactly
• Forty-eight hours
• Rust still unlearned
• Cabinet still fixed
• Small wins
• I guess
• Or

Regards, I have same problem with ISP in my building, they make a server down for 2 days and I cannot do nothing. I think is good you fix the cabinet, I have door in kitchen broken for 3 months and I never repair. Maybe I need internet down to make this up. Regards

Isp went down again. Ticket #44891 open. 48 hours no response. Last time: 72 hours. Trend: worse. Considering 4g failover. Graphs show 3 outages in 90 days. 99.1% uptime. Unacceptable. Cabinet fix: nice. Distraction helps. No internet: cannot post. Paradox.

Oh I feel this in my bones (all of them) because I had a similar thing happen back in march (or was it april, time blurs) where the fiber got chewed by something (squirrel? Rat? Very determined pigeon?) and I was offline for what felt like eternity (72 hours) and I did the exact same book thing (sorted by color first, then height, then publication date, then regret) and found a copy of "learning python" from 2003 that I bought and never opened (still in shrink wrap, tragic) and then I started cleaning the windows (inside only, outside too scary, third floor) and then I noticed the shower grout was black in spots (mold? Mildew? Cosmic horror?) and I spent four hours with a toothbrush and baking soda (elbow destroyed, worth it) and when the internet came back I had seventeen tabs open of things I "needed" and I closed them all without reading because the urge had passed (freedom? Or loss?)

99.1% is generous. 3 outages in 90 days?

Same, I stared at my router too