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[Let’s start with:  No wars, national single-source healthcare, life time education (including trades, internships and apprenticeships) with meals for all registered students while the “school / university / facility” is open, national access to high-speed internet, affordable housing tied to eventual housing ownership, three years of mandatory national service (civilian or military).    —    kmab]
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Click here (8 March) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.

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A few weeks back we received a message from our Internet Service Provider (ISP) – Xfinity, that on mm/dd/2023 (I forgot the exact date) we might experience a brief or intermittent lack of service due to a planned cable upgrade to their system.  Okay, next time send me the message closer to the actual date, other wise…  delete and forget…
 
Well, yesterday was the day (08/11/2023).  We lost internet / cable provision about 12:30pm.  There had been no “second” reminder.  (LoL)  Unable to save my work back in the cloud or download any data / information, we were forced to do other things…
 
The first thing to do was check if there was a “fix” time.  Using our cell phones we found out:  3:50pm.  …Okay, just a couple (3+) of hours.
 
I broke out one of my guitars and started working on my “luthier” skills –  smoothing and polishing frets and improving intonation.  Hil read and then took a nap.
 
Checked again:  5:30pm…    Watch a DVD.  Hil did the same, but a different DVD.
 
Checked again:  9:30pm…   Dinner and watched two DVDs.  Hil read and watched a second DVD.
 
About 9:20pm, my home phone lit up and I got a message on my PC:  “Network access restored.”  I checked and we had a dial tone (phone) and we could browse (PC) again.  Yippiee!!
 
I told Hil we were up and she watched some of her Netflix Korean soaps while I completed a post on WordPress.
 
Hil’s comment:  “I didn’t realize how much I rely on the internet to fill my time.  I felt lost without Facebook and my shows.” 
 
And, I for one, will not be holding my breath waiting for Xfinity to refund a day’s worth of fees for the nine hours loss of service…
 
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Click here (12 August) to see the posts of prior years.  I started this blog in late 2009.  Daily posting began in late January 2011.  Not all of the days in the early years (2009-2010) will have posts.
 
   

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