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Here's a special little insight into my life:  I don't sleep well.  I mean, I'm not good at sleeping.  55 years on the planet, and I still can't seem to get it.  It's not full-on insomnia.  I can sleep, and I sleep deeply, but I just don't sleep very long at a time.  If I turn out the light at 9, I'm awake between 3 and 4.  The alarm is set for 5, but I rarely need it unless I happen to fall back asleep after 30-40 minutes of being awake.  And usually I don't.   So this morning, I woke up at around 4 and got on my tablet to do today's Wordle.  Facebook was up, so I briefly checked a couple of things before moving over to the NYT site.  No internet.  Weird.  I checked my Wi-Fi, tried to turn it off and back on, but nothing.  No problem, I can play my logic puzzles and see if the internet comes back in a little bit.   A couple minutes after I noticed the internet was down, I heard the sounds of a big truc...