From the Coffee Shop

Xfiniti, my phone company, dug up my ground line the other day, I assume by accident.

I suspect malevolence, however.  My ground line now consists of nothing but splices.  The phone company has cut my phone line so many times that I have to assume it’s deliberate.  I mean, why would a public utility repeatedly expose their customers to incompetent service?

I no longer have access to the Internet from my home.  I’m posting from the local coffee shop.  News will be spotty for, let us hope, only the next few days.

But it may be weeks.  You see, I’m incompetent to diagnose my own phone problem.  They have to send a technician to analyze the difficulty, and he may decide it’s cosmic rays or something, anything but their own incompetent service.

UPDATE: Hey, the guy showed up on time, dug through some cold, soaked clay, and fixed my problem!  He also says it was AT&T that sliced the cable in the first place, though I could swear I saw Xfiniti painted on the truck.  Maybe AT&T is trying disguising themselves as a rival and wreaking havoc.