Wait, is your dog also the unofficial tech support that takes credit when things work but gets blamed when they don't? I had the exact same thing happen with my cat knocking over a plant during a work call, and I spent a week thinking she was the reason my audio kept cutting out. Turns out my laptop was connecting to the 2.4GHz band instead of the 5GHz one, and all I had to do was restart the router. Now I just pet the cat and pretend she's the wifi whisperer, even though she has zero clue what's going on. Honestly, half the battle with home tech is just remembering the router exists and isn't supposed to live behind the couch.

Oh man, that story takes me back. My buddy runs a bait shop near Lake Erie and he did the exact same thing, just handwritten notes to the regulars who lived within a few miles. He mentioned one retired guy who drove 25 minutes just because the postcard had a hand-drawn fish on it, said it felt like a friend wrote it. He gets maybe 5 to 8 people a week mentioning those cards, and his email list barely gets 2 opens a month. It's wild how a 50 cent stamp and some penmanship beats a fancy mailer app every time. Guess people just want to feel like someone took a second to think of them.