All right, this is one of those times where I’m going to give you an update on my life by going through my calendar and telling you all the things I did this past weekend and the relevant stories therefrom.

I’m not going to go deep on my customer service experience with Eero, which ended positively and started not as positively, because I’m going to go deep on that on the rebound this week.

But the short version is, after three hours on the phone with Eero Friday night and Saturday, I got my Wi‑Fi working again.

And I did it by being persistent and friendly and sometimes stern, because that’s what it takes.

But anyway, full story on the podcast, the other podcast.

And now, Lex’s Weekend by Lex Friedman, the host of Your Daily Lex.

I really, I really hit the ks of Lex in that theme song.

Sometimes, sometimes if you stop it at just the right place and then press play, you can really hear an intense ks.

So let’s see.

Friday was the 14th.

Liam had a gig.

He was playing music, playing piano for some professional thing and got paid and was very happy, and that was fun.

It took forever.

Saturday, it was just a very long show, like three-plus hours of mostly older people singing rock songs while a band played.

And at one point, the director, the choir director, calls out—you know, he’s introducing each individual member of the band at different times.

When he gets to Liam, he’s like, And this kid is only 15 years old, because everybody else in the band was an adult.

So I got some great photos of Liam’s delighted slash slightly embarrassed smile when he was called out as this young talented kid.

So that was fun.

Anyway, Saturday, we did a family brunch because we’ve been home, all five of us, not too, too long since the kids came home from camp, but hadn’t had meals together because of conflicting schedules.

We were like, let’s do—we had a dinner actually this past Monday, a week ago today actually, but I was like, let’s do a family brunch on Saturday too, which we did, and that was fun.

Had a good time.

Then all the others went to celebrate a birthday party of a cousin or nephew, depending on which one you are thinking of when I say that sentence, and I went to a band gig.

This is the band where I fill in on vocals, and I had to drive to this Mexican place in Long Branch, New Jersey, where I was the front man for the first two sets and then had to leave.

And that went well.

It was hot, which I knew it would be.

It was outside, and it’s the summer.

It’s August.

It was very hot, but it went really well.

They had a guitarist who was filling in, like I’m a fill-in vocalist, and this guitarist had gotten the set list like a week ahead of time, and I was very impressed with how well he pulled it all together.

Do that gig, and then, like I said, I bolted out after the second set because I have to go to comedy sports, and there was a nice comedy sports match.

I was going to say only, but I don’t want to diminish it, but I was in the booth.

I was, you know, the guy running the scoreboards and screens where you can put up funny messages and images and whatnot, and I was the person on the microphone, and that was fun.

Other than the fact that I was so exhausted from some of the work I had been doing in the band gig, you know, singing my head off outside for a couple hours in the heat, that I at one point early on I did some bad math, but we all figured it out.

It was fine, but that was a good time.

I enjoyed it.

Then, let’s see what else.

Then we got to Sunday.

Is that the day that comes after Saturday?

I had a lot of nothing.

I did some shuttling kids around, and I did some work around the house, got some stuff done for me.

I put away all my laundry.

Very exciting.

But I don’t ever mind having a restful Sunday.

Liam had another paying gig.

He definitely made more money than I did this past weekend, where he plays his weekly piano gig at a restaurant.

And Lauren and I have had way too many dinners at that restaurant.

We don’t want to do that again, but we went for the tail end of his set there.

And they know us because we always come to pick up Liam.

We often stay and have dinner, and so when we’re coming there just for a bit, they always just give us tea or coffee, and then they don’t charge us.

So we tip them nicely.

I don’t know.

It seems silly to me not to charge us for the tea and coffee.

We’re more than happy to pay, but we didn’t.

Anyway, that was my weekend.

Man, oh man.

I got to tell you the short version of the story because I’m not going to give you the whole thing, but when the internet shut off on Friday, right after we came back from a walk, you know, you wait it out.

We watched something on Plex because that’s from a local streaming server within the house, and you figure it’s going to come back in a little bit.

Anyway, we have backup internet from our Alarm provider, whatever.

But at some point, the internet’s still not back.

I’m like, what’s going on?

So I text the neighborhood WhatsApp, hey, anybody seen the internet go out?

And when they said it was just me, that’s when I knew I had to deal with it, and that stank.

But it’s done.

It’s fixed.

The other fun experience I had this weekend was I happened to see on Facebook one morning, I think Saturday morning, that somebody, an elderly person in an elderly community, had posted that their beloved family parrot had gotten out and nobody saw it, so please let them know.

No photo or anything, whatever.

Then 17 hours later, somebody posted in the My Developments WhatsApp to be like, hey, that same one where I found out the internet, anybody lose a bird?

And they posted a picture of this beautiful bird by their pool.

And I Googled the kind of bird that the person on Facebook said that they had lost, and it looked exactly like this photo.

So I connected those people, and the bird was reunited with his owner.

I did hear that it was injured and had to go to the vet, and so we’re going to assume a happy ending.

I don’t know.

If I ever have a bird, I’m going to name it Flip so I can say, look, it’s Flip the bird.

Goodbye.

Lex.