Joe,

JM>  A few years ago when I got my new (to me) laptop I lost my cable.

  Sounds like a personal problem. <g,d,r> But, of all the things I've
lost, I miss my mind the most. <G>

JM>(The junction box is two and a half stories off the ground on the side of
JM>the wall and someone once even tampered with that!  We have had students
JM>here and they are always looking to get everything free).

  One time, I didn't know the WiFi was open on my system, and the person
in the apartment behind me, grabbed a movie off of my feed. I got a
nasty letter from Comcast about it, and I had to get someone to show me
how to disable that, or set it up right (I was never told).

JM>  Long story short she eventually gave in and a repairman was here a
JM>couple of days later.  He said the problem was with the modem, replaced
JM>it with a new one that is also a router and back in business.

  With AT&T's DSL modems, every time there's a power outage, or a
thunderstorm (lightning hit), the modems are fried.

JM>  In the past the repair guy came when he felt like it.  Now they say
JM>such-and-such a time and are there in that time frame.  No more making
JM>appointments to be here after I got off work only to find a note they had
JM>been here an hour before I got off work then reschedule for 10 days out.

  I had 2 calls to make yesterday...one to Comcast to negotiate a lower
package (I still had to pay the higher bill today...I hope they grant a
credit next month), and the other to deactivate my Mom's cellphone I had
bought for her. When she dialed 911 from it from the nursing home (from
her dementia), and it wasn't an emergency, I told the staff to take it
away from her. I hated to do that, but the ramifications could've been
real nasty.

  But, in both calls, they asked if I'd like to be called back in x
number of minutes, instead of holding on the line. I said "yes" to both,
and that was worth it.

JM>  I don't even have a tv.  Got rid of it years ago.

  I rarely watch it, except maybe for The Weather Channel, and that's
rare.

JM>  Most all businesses here have free wifi for customers, get a temporary
JM>USID/PW, sometimes only a PW is required.

  I rarely use the public WiFi.

JM>  I have heard the buses have wifi on them and I think Lyft and Uber does
JM>as well.

  The Rock Region Metro (bus) has WiFi.

JM>  I loved that show.  I used to hurry home for lunch to watch it.
JM>  Of course the big hit of the show was "Gene Gene the Dancing Machine".
JM>  You know of course after the show went off the air he developed
JM>diabetes and lost both his legs.  He been dead for years.

  Wow.

Daryl

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