Yesterday

Its what happened AND my interpretation of it is the story.

I got up early, had a light breakfast, packed the car with food and meds and drove to the Lake House. I stopped at Wright City Hardware for a fireplace lighter with a long handle. On arrival the house was cold. The furnace was not working. The Ecobee thermostat was dark. The Spectrum TV downstairs was working. My phone and the computer indicated that there was no internet. Touching the thermostat did nothing. Checking the left electric box in the basement showed the power was on for the furnace - breaker on.

I called Survant Heating as Chris had very recently done a clean and check. They agreed to send Chris out. I called Spectrum and a nice lady trying to sell me something also told me how to re-boot the internet - I had to go to the basement to unplug two Spectrum boxes on a back basement shelf for a few minutes and this got me back the internet.
The computer was working and my phone had bars and was working.

Another reason for the visit was to get the propane tank filled. I changed all batteries in the two fireplaces and the two hand held starters. The truck had not arrived yet so I called the company (Amerigas). In the midst of the call the call was lost. After multiple attempts i noted that in the upper left corner it said "SOS only. I did not know what that meant. Luckily the phone text component still worked so I was in contact with Jan. She called several people. Sherry arrived and was helpful. I drove to the clubhouse to get the phone to work but it did not work there either. Sherry waited in my absence for the two people coming. I came back and we started using Sherry's phone (non AT&T). About an hour later Jan texted that the Innsbrook Property Owner's Facebook page reported that the entire area's AT&T was offline and not working.

As I was calling Amerigas again the truck showed up. It was the same driver as the last time. He reported the the tank was completely empty and that made it dangerous. He did a successful leak-check and began filling the tank.

At this time Chris showed up from Survant. He noted how cold the house was.He checked the dark Ecobee thermostat
and found that 'SOMEONE" had bumped it and that it wasn't working because it had physically lost its connection. He pushed it back in and the furnace started working. He left to my thanks.

The tank was now full and the Amerigas guy tried to light the fireplaces. that did not work so I will have to schedule a fireplace repair man that I have used before to come fix them. In the mean time we left the propane tank handle
on on the outside and closed firmly the handle at the back of each fireplace on the side. This should be safe until the repairman comes. We will not attempt to light them in the meantime.

In the middle of this Jan texted the Spectrum was burying a new orange cable in our front yard and they were not friendly.

So now at IB the home was heating up, the Ecobee was working, we had a full propane tank, the TV and computers were working. The phone was still offline. I ate lunch, did a few things and drove home. The phone started working after leaving when I was on the road.

When I got home the Spectrum cable was now buried. I went inside and Jn was still put out. The 2 TV's , the upstairs computer, and the phones and iPads and even the land line phone did not work. I went outside to 5G and called Spectrum. They said they could get a tech out Monday. Then realizing how absurd that was she said she would contact an emergency tech.who would contact us tonight or tomorrow. After dark about 6:00 there was knock on the door. It was a very nice tech who said that he had done the line burying and connection. He was training someone who did not do a correct connection. This tech re-connected it. I went everywhere and checked all the items (TVs, computer, iPads, land line phone. eSeries. tc.) and WAHLAH everything worked. I ate dinner and watched Toronto beat the Dodgers in the first game of the World Series. Tired at bedtime.

Other than that not much was going on.

That is my story and am sticking to it.

DAD