around 9:15 AM after pit stop at Walmart to get a Cobb Salad and a box of Cherry Crumble Legendary Low Carb Pastries, the Blueberry must have been recalled. Nuke 17 seconds and it is almost like a pink glazed doughnut ...... almost. I ask the Director of Operations what is going on with the computer he says internet down phone as well. I say do I need to call someone he says no I will call them in a minute. 30 minutes go by and he calls the internet service provider. Nothing to do but toddle on the cell phone managed to lose 5 straight games of bullet chess (f-ing bots most likely) Finally win one with 1.8 seconds to spare. 11:00 AM Teams meeting using work cell phone listen to Executive Director and 6 other engineering and financial consultants repeat things 4 or 5 times. Lunch time. Cobb Salad then more bullet chess splitting win loss 50/50. Browse on cell phone I hate browsing on a cell phone. 1:30 PM Director of Operations comes back to building. Any word on the internet? Yea they closed ticket says problem at Maintenance Building next door. I am going to call them in a minute. 20 minutes go by. You out of internet service as well ... did you check the power. to me why didn't he check the power? The thing that blinks is not blinking. I say router yea the router is not blinking. I will call internet service provider in a minute. 10 minutes pass then calls and tells internet service provider router not blinking. I am prepared for this now so I go to car and get Shokz earbuds and start listening Book 4 Iron Gold of the Red Rising series on Audible. Enthralling Sci-Fy set about 2,000 year in the future. All solid planets and over 100 moons of Jupiter and Saturn have been terraformed and delightful tale unfolds romanticizing a space opera Bolshevik Revolution as the proletariat Reds rise against the ornate Golds. Cassius a Gold disgraced Olympic Knight of House Bellona and the grandson of the former Sovereign stumble across a large, dead in the water, space vessel in the Kuiper Belt. They board to find a group of 7 and half foot tall Obsidians in the cafeteria eating Angus beef and humans legs. This is going to get interesting but there is the sound of snoring. Snoring so loud I can hear it over the narrator. My walls are vibrating from the snoring. Operations Director has fallen asleep again and is ruining my story time. It really sucked yesterday with no internet. ** Edited by jdkhokie at 7/21/2026, 1:42:05 PM