Meteor 1.8 Retrying download in 5 seconds

There are threads on this recurring issue … some say it is the CDN, but there have been cases where someone had a brain fart and blew away the latest non-beta build.

Well, I don’t care why this has started happening since last night (or earlier, I can’t peg it accurately) … I only care that I don’t know how to get it going. Should I start playing with the latest betas? I have a deadline tomorrow morning and dockerizing Meteor has delayed me time and again for weeks. I’ve tried 5 of the base docker builds and their instructions and so far I’ve had the best luck with jshimko’s … until yesterday.

Anyway see this? Or have an idea what I might do to get back on track?