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Monday morning dudes.

We appreciate youse worker types and your contributions that keep us layabouts performing our layaboutness... and stuff.

Good Monday Morning to All! It's 54° on the way to 67° today. Just a little haze burning off.

Bout to head to second, and final, round of going to the dentist. Getting a second filling. :(

Has anybody heard from Frankie T? Haven't seen him post in a while, hope he's doing ok.

Afternoon... rained this morning, but was able to get the dog walk done. Went to gym and had a protein shake.

Time to work on the recliner's "butt groove". Possibly even nap...

Here I'm is!

MACS got the story from me a few days ago, before the problem got temporarily fixed.

I was changing cable boxes out at local Xfinity/Comcast shpo and mentioned that my internet has been slow forever. The guy who is like a genius looked up the account, tells me my router/modem is old...I say it's two years old!...he thinks that proves his point.

He says my current one is only 800 mbps or whatever and my service has been boosted to 1000 mbps so iff'n I swap my "old" one for the brand new(ly refurbished) one that looks exactly the same I should see much better results even with my old laptop.

Plug in the new modem, everything in the house works...except after 3 days of no problems my laptop suddenly can't connect to server. Several hours on the phone with CS, they give up, tell me it's probably my laptop.

I like the old girl, I don't do much on it but it's got a yuuuge screen and stuff, so even though I should replace it, I take it to the kid at the local shpo, who is also like a genius.

$100 later he says it goes on line no prob at the shpo, cleaned out some malware and stuff, but I need to get Comast to fix it on their end. Also says will probably work with some short money thing plugged into the side to get wifi but to try Xfinity first.

Several more hours on the phone (Filipinos are so nice) they give up, decide they will send a technician the next day. Nice guy. Spends 3 hours here. He's maybe like uh idiot, but a nice guy.

Call my friend Rick...MACS met him a few years ago... he's really an actual genius. Tries everything. Gets the plug in thingy, it doesn't work. So he said let's plug it directly into the router/modem thing with an ethernet cable...it works.

I hate the location so looks like I'll be buying a new laptop soon.

Once I figure out the answer, I'll let you know what I learned from all this.

I guess.

You want I should make that happen..

He's a multi-tasker. He's got all of those March Madness games to keep up with, plus has to keep up with the DOW & MarketWatch to see who buys out Joann Fabrics, then there's the Matlock marathon.

I’ve got one of those dongles on my old MAC work computer in Wyoming. It’s working great after many years

I assumed he already tried a wifi dongle, he just called it a plug-in thingy. A wifi dongle will work most of the time but not all. A dongle isn't the complete adapter so if the part of the adapter is bad the dongle doesn't include, it still won't fix the problem. The only thing that will is to replace the computers adapter or wifi card.
It's not difficult, and can be done with a YouTube video, but will require taking the computer apart. If u do just be sure to unplug all accessories (mouse, speakers, keyboard, etc) then once its opened unhook the battery pack power to it first, then discharge all static or you can ruin the hard drive or the entire computer. Don't touch anything inside until you're sure all static is discharged

sorry to hear Frankie has a dangling dongle...hope it gets fixed so we can enjoy his company more often...

Yeah, my son has an Xbox and a PlayStation that he uses to play multi player online games and he doesn't seem to have issues with connections. Again, we are not heavy users. Although there are many devices connected to WiFi, there are not all running at the same time in full force eating up bandwidth.

Since Three Legs Franky is closer to Boston, he might have fiber optic Xfinity/Comcast which has the highest speeds. I'm kinda in the boonies so it's either Verizon phone line DSL (which sucks) or Xfinity/Comcast cable.

One other thing to note is the speed also depends on how many households and businesses are on the same line as your house. Once it gets to the pole or the underground connection, everyone on that "pipeline" between you and the server share the same wire. For example, I have cable. Everyone in the neighborhood that uses cable service share the same cable line once it hits the pole outside. The hospital a couple blocks away and the community college another couple blocks away are also on the same digital pipeline unless they have a dedicated line tailored to those buildings and the campus which they might {shrug}.

The way the internet and data communications work is super interesting and fascinating.

What channel is that Matlock Marathon on?

Tuesday hello one & all...............

dudes... i'ze a bit under da wedder... abdominal pain. Real low. CT scan says my guts are inflamed. Antibiotics and pain meds. Doc at the naval station ER says likely a side effect of the crestor, talk to my doc about sumpin different.

Gettin' old ain't for puzzies... I'll tell ya that right now.

Morning Ram and gang

33 wc 22.

Last shpo day for the week.

March Madness happiness.

Morning folks and happy spring. ('cept 8track I guess)

A springlike 50 going to a sunny 74 today.

Usually Crestor is better tolerated than other statins.

There's other options tho

40 mg of that stuff... damn megadose.

56F right now heading to 69F with a low tonight of 47. Clear skies, but there is a 13 mile breeze which negates my desire to swim today.

So, I spent the last 1.5 hours reviewing and disposing of old personal and business tax records going back to 2000. Emptied out a double size file drawer to make room for everything else has on my desk, in my in-box, etc.

Going to Wells Fargo bank today to find out why they haven't credited me my $525 bonus for opening a new savings account with a minimum balance. Should have received it more than a month ago, but the bank computer system indicates I am not eligible for the bonus in contrast to the paperwork they cave me when I opened the account. Third trip to branch concerning this the branch. May have to escalate it to the manager.

Alos, going to do my taxes today.

After that, nothing planned...

F'k that crap drug! It made me sick too and if you read the lirture about it may or may not have much of any effect on your health. My Doc had me start taking two 200 Mg of Red yeast rice tablets a day. It worked so well I now take just one 200 mg tablet a day. As the bad cholesterol went down, my good cholesterol went up.

Finally had to get the mower out today.

But I do like to ride around and have a good smoke.

What's up all?
Currently at pool league night at the local cigar shpo and my teammate and I are dominating. Ran an 8-ball rack all 8 balls only the 2nd time I've ever done it. Great time for it to happen.

19.25 hours over the last two days.
Physically exhausted feels better than the psychological wear of the last few dacades.
Happy pooped.