Saturday. Lights out not long after nine to awaken twice before awakening for good at ten to six. Up to go through the usual routine in preparing to set out to walk (on a clear relatively warm morning) to breakfast.

Had the two strips of bacon, eggs over medium, country potatoes, toast, fruit cup and coffee for breakfast, still one point two pounds over target, but justified the bacon by passing on the single pork chop.

Do you really go through all this drama over ordering breakfast?

Oddly, more times than it should, nothing really appeals and I feel a little foolish in not knowing when the waitress arrives to take my order. How many times have I had breakfast at this restaurant?

The usual walk home, the usual pictures to discover, when logging onto the laptop, that it wouldn't connect to the Internet. Wrestled through checking the usual settings, all were good, so maybe a server at AT&T is down? If true, why was the tablet able to connect? For some reason I got through to the Internet briefly after eleven, uploaded yesterday's entry and then, right after checking to see it was online, it crapped out again, taking the tablet with it this time as well.

A walk to the lake to take one or two pictures, the head a little cloudy and so back home by noon to futz over this still with a cloudy head.

Later. Watched some golf. Still no Internet access, the problem, I'm still guessing, with AT&T, as it has a connection, but it isn't getting a response from the AT&T DNS server. If it continues through tomorrow I'll have to track down the AT&T support number and call.

No phone book?

No phone book, no network access, no ambition to call information. When's the last time I've called information? Why no phone book? I'm not sure we're in Kansas anymore.

You really do have a “cloudy” head.

Evening. The replacement controller card arrived with the mail (whoop!) and the main computer booted right up when I put it in the machine. No data loss. I wonder if access to the Internet was waiting in the wings to step out of the shadows when the controller arrived? Have I screwed with the Fates?

Ah. The Internet came back just now. I suspect it was indeed something at AT&T's end, something they managed to fix. Either that or I'd best get this thing done and posted before morning in case it goes south again.