Ooooh, that might be better. Then put the case in the Zippo, and people think I'm a cool smoker person instead of somebody who constantly wears AirPods.
That would lead to quite the synthesis—a Zippo shuffle.
You probably don't want to know. Maybe something ugly came to their attention that needed doing weeks ago? Better late than never, aka never look a gift horse in the mouth. They do "maintenance" every weekend. Sometimes during the week. I presume they mean some crackhead cut fiber cables thinking it was copper. It's enough to cause service disruption in a 100-130 mi. radius.
I have a few POTS lines into the house. Only one is above ground. Service gets knocked out for a few hours every other year it seems and a tech fixes it within a few hours or the next day if it's too late to roll a truck out. The logistics of redoing everything underground is very expensive. It's easier in a planned out city. Most communities made or developed after the 1950s here have buried setups.
The last time I recall seeing a lengthy thread on that visual illusion, it resulted in a 26 page flame war. Granted, this was over 10 years ago, but I digress.
The key is that you can see, and because you can see, you can negotiate possible a good deal, if you don’t mind sweat equity. If you talk to the average realtor, they want your house perfect when it is on the market because there are so many out there who can’t see or don’t want to bother having to fix anything. Wallpaper is a great example. At least in Minnesota, if the realtor gets their way, all of the wallpaper must go!
