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I worked from home for the past two days. I noticed crews digging up the neighborhood electrical and whatnot boxes yesterday when I took the dog for a walk. Today they have moved into the open area behind my backyard, which I watch over as I work from my third-floor window.

All day long I’ve watched a fellow dig a larger and larger hold right behind my backyard.

All day long I’ve wondered: When is he going to hit a wire?

He just did.

1. I knew it! I knew my luck couldn’t hold, that there would be some outage.
2. Does the cable company even know who these people are? Who are these people?
3. Do the people know they have broken anything? Should I go say something?
4. A Supervisor came to ask about my cable TV and internet. His vest was labelled “SUPERVISOR”. I confirmed the cable is completely gone.
5. Does the Supervisor think I’m watching TV all day?
6. Man, why do I work on the Internet? It goes away so easy… I should do construction or sculpture or something more permanent.
7. I never have this much to write about when I want to make stupid little posts on the Internet. If it weren’t for the outage, I’d be a Twitter-fiend right about now.
8. Why did I never activate mobile posting for Twitter? (Oh yeah, because my cell phone sucks…)
9. Why didn’t the mobile activation for Jaiku work? At least then I could tell Nowell and Kristen about my woes.
10. They are using a rad little tool that bores its way from one big hole to another. It has a tempo of ~94bpm and a super regular rhythm with a lovely mechanical *tink* at the end. Groovin.
11. Why do I work on the Internet again? I should have one of these awesome boring tools and could bore through anything.
12. Now I can’t stop thinking of stupid jokes about the similarities between being a professional writer and a professional ‘borer’.
13. The Supervisor is in the hole. Even three floors up, I can recognize a coaxial crimper thingy.
14. Is it just me, or does that little spin at the end of crimping coax just make you look cool? Even Supervisor guy looks suave attaching those ends.
15. A globe just appeared over my network connection – we’re back!
16. And Supervisor is actually waving at my office window for confirmation of the fix – big thumbs up, man!
17. So I’m back. Catastrophe averted. Life path resumed.

I still don’t know who these people are, but at least they seem benevolent.