I know I keep saying it but I'm so glad the wait finally ended for me last year. Reading though this thread my mindset was very similar to all of yours i.e following Toob progress on Facebook/Twitter/their own coverage maps and checking planning permissions/streetworks etc. It was at the point where me and the Mrs would be walking the dogs and I'd be stopping often to look up at phone poles in the area examine/taking pictures of the new Toob dp's trying to work out how close we are go going live. I'd be at work whilst she was working from home and if a random van parked in the street she would txt me to say if it had any identifier on it, so i would try and work out if they were a fibre/comms contractor. If I found out someone had climbed the street poles outside mine I would go back through my cctv camera to figure out if he was working on copper or fibre.
Honestly there's more I could share but I'm just so relieved now I have Toob out of my head space