Backhoe for the win!
Major road construction + T1 line + Internet-addicted sysadmin == bad.
After lunch today, I returned to the office and was greeted by a storm of “host unreachable” whinings from Nagios and a blinking “WAN” LED on the T1 router. A few phone calls later, it was confirmed that our local loop circuit had been physically cut. Wonderful.
How am I supposed to survive without Google, to say nothing of IM and email? 
I actually had to dig out a physical, dead-tree book to look up the answer to an (unrelated) technical issue today. Argh!