May be inop for a while...

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Flooring contractors will be here tomorrow to begin ripping out our hardwood floors in three rooms (only a year or two old) to repair water damage from Oct, when our septic system backed up. Plumbing was all repaired in Oct-Dec, but we delayed replacing the wood floors until after Christmas, since family was assembling here; can't avoid it any longer, since mold may have formed under the flooring. One of the rooms affected is the study/home office, which contains the PC, cable modem, fax/copier/printer/scanner, and WiFi hub. Will attempt to use D's Dell laptop for internet access via the WiFi, if I can figure a way to keep the hub online, maybe by placing it on a bookshelf. Anyway, the laptop's reliability on the Web is marginal at best; so fully expect to have only intermittent service for about a month while the old flooring is removed, the slab dried of any remaining moisture, the new flooring installed, and all furnishings restored to their proper places. We won't even have CATV, since our only cable service at present is in the living room, which is also affected. (Come to think of it, even the VCR and DVD are in there.) Ain't it fun....