Rumors of the death of Geo-caches

  Rumors of the death of Geocaching.com are greatly exaggerated; It’s down today and possibly several more days, due to a fire in the building that host the sterile banks of whirring computer servers that are the very lifeblood of any website.

  Oddly enough, the building is in downtown Seattle, practically in the shadow of the Space Needle. I always envisioned these computers to be housed in some nondescript industrial park out in the boonies, not in prime Seattle real estate.

  Unfortunately for me, it also knocked out our Verizon Internet for a time. There was a flurry of modem-resetting and “Is yours working?”, wailing and gnashing of teeth of course.

  Teresa gnashes at the drop of a hat, I have been meaning to talk to her about that.

  But I digress. The problem with Internet outages is that there is no good way to determine if it’s signal, hardware or software. I could call Verizon, but I have a feeling they are overtly covert about outages. (We watched “Burn after Reading” and now I am emailing friends to ask if by not emailing me, they are being “Overtly Covert” or “Covertly Overt”. Third possibility – They are trying to avoid my inane questions.)