I have internet again! So for the past week internet's been sporadic -- I'd have any time between 0 to 5 hours of internet on any given day for no reason that I can discern and after rounds of being told by ATT people to shut off and restart my router and computer (I despise how customer service does not distinguish between people of varying levels of technical knowledge) they finally sent a tech over. He arrived past seven, discovered the issue was that the phone jack itself has corroded (apparently of the pins, the two in the middle are the ones that provide the main connection, and one of mine's corroded away), which is why I've been having intermittent problems with connection. He had to replace the entire jack, which was a bit noisy and which prompted the neighbors to bang on the wall (both of us found this amusing and wondered what the neighbor must've thought I was doing) and gave me tips for how to deal with stray dogs and coyotes if I plan to go hiking up the Rose Canyon trial. And now I have internet. It is a bit too late in the day for me to do anything. But I have internet!