My phone is still getting service, but Vi decided to trouble my wife again, so she had no service this morning. It's back again,but this is getting out of hand. Maybe we need to change provider, but will a new company be better? Who knows?

Of the two, Ruby (probably JRuby), but the real life answer would actually be Kotlin.

Well, I'm happy to report that they have restored service to my phone, so I am now able to function like a normal Bombayite.

Been there, done that: I replaced the keyboard on my wife's laptop.

Gosh the DEC Rainbow was my work machine when I was doing HW development. That's many moons ago, of course. Really neat machine for its time. Only thing that wasn't so good were the floppies, which used a propriety format so they were a bit pricey.

Having lived with many border collies, I recognize that behaviour very well. I even had one foster who would bring pebbles for you to throw when we sat outside.

Message from our building manager: From today till tomm evening no car can go out [or in]

I've had a couple of 15" laptops (System76) and that is about the size limit I can deal with. I'd suggest looking at using an external monitor.

No morning walk? My dogs would be ricocheting off the walls and ceiling if they didn't have a good (1hr) walk before sun up.