As of 5:27 a.m. last Wednesday, my AT&T service, which includes my landline and internet connection, had been out for three days. Good news / Bad news. Good news because, with the phone out there’s a welcome absence of repeated calls from people with funny accents around lunch and supper time peddling everything from Medicare supplements, to windows, to winning entries in the Readers Digest Sweepstakes (“I’ll take the black Mercedes, please.