I know it’s been driving you all nuts so I’m posting what I believe to be the cause of this issue for the sake and benefit of humanity.

I’ll have it confirmed by the end of the tomorrow but the culprit appears to be NETGEAR Genie (an otherwise cool utility for managing my home network). I configured it to not load automatically and installed all software and firmware upgrades and had no issues yesterday. Tomorrow will be a full blown workday and I’ll likely know for sure if the issue does not manifest.

I feel sort of safe in saying that you can all relax now…