Disconnected

After lots of dithering, I finally got around to signing up for cable and internet service. In the end, after hearing lots of complaints about poor customer service by the local cable company, we decided to roll the dice and try fiber optic for both...which means the phone company will be our cable TV provider. It's a strange new world we live in. The only problem is that they can't do the installation (which is evidently an all-day affair) until next week, which means Gretchen in particular remains disconnected from the world at large until then. You don't really realize how much you depend on having internet access until you don't actually have it.

Oh, and we survived our weekend of tummy distress (thankfully, with no puking). Thursday night Gretchen didn't feel well, then Friday morning neither of us felt well, then I felt better Friday afternoon and came home early to help with Baby, then we both felt OK Saturday morning, then I felt lousy Saturday afternoon while Gretchen felt better, then Saturday night I felt better while Gretchen felt horrible, then I felt better on Sunday while she continued to feel rotten (she really bore the brunt of it). We're still not sure if it was something we ate, or maybe a bug, or possibly just the stress of the past month finally catching up with us...