If the Internet had been restored last night, this entry would have gone live much sooner. Unfortunately, due to the outage, I’m only able to share it now, after service returned earlier today.
Early Afternoon, Saturday, October 4, 2025, Orlando, Florida
It’s a muggy fall afternoon in my corner of Central Florida. Currently, the temperature outside is 85°F under partly sunny skies—an improvement, at least, after a morning filled with scattered light rain and plenty of gray clouds overhead.
As I write this, it’s also a frustrating Saturday afternoon. The Internet is out, and as a result, I can’t follow my daily routine of writing, blogging, or staying connected with my far-flung friends and relatives. I can still write in Word, of course, and I do have other ways to entertain myself. Still, after relying on stable Internet connectivity for the past quarter century, interruptions in service are more than just annoying—they feel genuinely unsettling.
I don’t know when Spectrum—our Internet provider—will restore our connection. Hopefully, I’ll be able to log on later this afternoon so I can at least check on the progress of the three Garratyverse audiobooks currently in production on Amazon’s ACX. I’m supposed to receive Steve Lee’s 15-minute checkpoint recording of Reunion: Coda tonight, so I really need access to my ACX account.
I’m logging off now, hoping for the best, but preparing for a long day of disconnection.
Postscript: Spectrum restored our service this morning.
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