Monday July 20 Links and Banter

Fucking hell, man

Monday July 20 Links and Banter
Photo by Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash

Smoke detectors (yes, plural) started chirping at 11:00. In the process of fussing with them and turning off their respective fuse box, I seem to have (maybe?) fried my WiFi router. It’s 1:30. I have not fixed it. Verizon support is apparently not 24/7. I’ve yelled at an unhelpful phone bot twice now. YES IVE TRIED UNPLUGGING IT AND PLUGGING IT BACK IN.

Sigh. Happy Monday, all.

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