Internet Breakage...
Last night Laurie stopped being able to surf and asked if the internet was down. We'd suffered a power outage earlier and her desktop was down, but I was playing an internet game (2 Moons) - which is a decent indicator that the internet was up. Anyway, I investigated various things, one of them eventually bumping me off my game. After that I reset the modem and it never came back up again. I knew just what to do. We went grocery shopping. You know, so the Internet, being a spurned lover, would try to get all close and huggy again. But no. It was still gone when we got back. I called support, entered my phone number and was greeted with "Right now all Internet and Phone service is down in North Carolina. We're working on it." In North Carolina. Well. There was a small note of panic in the voice.

... so...

We ate, talked about watching some anime, Laurie passed out, I checked the internet again then went to bed.

When I woke up a simple
/etc/init.d/network restart
/etc/init.d/shorewall restart
got the internet working again.

Yay?