My daughter was diagnosed with strep on Saturday. Her fever went as high as 104.9. She’s doing better, thank goodness, but now I have early symptoms of bubonic plague or something similar. Meanwhile the kid’s staying home from school. Wife and I mostly work from home. And now cable and internet have died. That means, I need to use my much slower wireless doohickey. Far more troubling: No Spongebob Squarepants for you-know-who. Spent an hour with a taciturn fellow in Bangalore who had me unplug and replug and unplug the wires to our two cable boxes over and over again, only to tell me there was nothing more he could do. So, we need a technician to come out. The soonest one will be available from our overlords at RCN: Friday.

And yet, in this country, if I were to kill someone from the cable company, I would be the one to go to jail.