We generally have good service here at Casa de Truman, but it tends to get a little spotty late Saturday night. In fact, it has a habit of going down within an hour or two of midnight in either direction. Every time this happens I freak out. Not because I can’t handle having the Internet down for a short little stretch, but because midnight Saturday night is when cable companies shut off accounts for non-payment. The automatic payment with my cable company is always spotty and I freak out thinking that maybe there’s been another missed payment.

You’d think after this happening week in and week out I’d calm down about it, but you’d be wrong.

I miss the old days when you could be assured of getting at least an automated phone call before anything gets shut off.