Screeching halt!

Screeching halt!  That's what happened to our Internet on Saturday morning.  Not until this morning did I figure out what the cause was: our sprinkler contractors rammed a shovel into the plastic conduit that carries the cable under our back yard, and that was enough to create a short in the cable.  We have repair people arriving in an hour or so to fix it.  Meanwhile, I'm restricted to a terrible Internet connection via the hot spot on my iPhone.  It's slow because the signal out here is awful.  Once we're back up I'll make a real post...