Thanks for the replies. The faucet at
https://faucet.rinkeby.io/ had been down but is back up and running now. I was just able to get some of the coveted testnet ETH and use it successfully I might add. Very cool. It also makes me see how dependent the rinkeby developer network is to a single faucet. You'd think Opensea would have something a little better in place considering they're selling NFTs in the billions of dollars in revenue...
Anyway, my request is no longer needed. Happy ending reached.