Spectrum (our cable and Internet provider) is doing a network upgrade in our area, so we’ve had no Internet service for the last 10 hours. Over the years Spectrum has proved themselves incapable of a clean network upgrade – things ALWAYS go worse than expected and take longer to restore service. We’ll be lucky to get service back sometime this afternoon.
My mornings are built around Internet access – reading the news, watching some funny or informative Youtube videos, posting something like this on my blog, etc. So with no access, it’s a different kind of morning. I’m writing offline at the moment, to be uploaded later.
Maybe it’s time to go see a movie in an actual theater – Project Hail Mary is #1 on my list. I reread the book, and it’ll be interesting to see how the book’s scenes get translated to video.
But the movie I’m really excited to see is Disclosure Day. It’s yet another Spielberg take on the aliens among us, a theme started with movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, Super 8 and War of the Worlds, then continued with the almost-forgotten early 2000s TV series Taken and then the Falling Skies series. Spielberg can’t seem to get away from this story, and this latest version looks really interesting in spite of it being the 10th time he’s done it. With better special effects. The trailers for Disclosure Day definitely do their job of making me want to see the movie, ASAP.
On a bittersweet note, today the men’s basketball Final Four starts, and I could really care less. That’s quite a loss, an event going from my favorite sports event to “meh”. Just one more thing that’s not what it used to be. My cousins are all excited about who UK might or might not get in the offseason transfer portal, but I can’t get excited about it. We’ll get another batch of paid mercenaries who may or may not come together as a team. We’ll have to learn all their names and stories. Gone are the days when you got a crop of freshmen and then watched them develop into great players over 3-4 years. John Wooden wouldn’t win a fucking game in today’s money-drenched environment.
Spectrum’s promised service outage window is over, but still no service. Shocker. I’ve switched over to using my cell phone as a hot spot for Internet access. Weird that wireless cellular service is now generally more reliable than wired.