Consumer Confidence

My internet connection has been down for a while, which would normally have done wonders for my productivity, except I was laid up with the flu for a few days and got nothing written anyway.

Normally when the internet goes down, I ride it out–it generally takes a while, but I have some oddly misplaced faith that the system will right itself.  This time, that didn't seem to be happening.  I needed to call Comcast, but typically, I didn't have Comcast's number handy since that's the sort of...