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Making America Great Again

Posted in Education, General Comments, Health, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Affordable Housing, American Politics, Ease, Education, General Comments, Healthcare, Improving, Internet Access, Mandatory National Service, Meals, Noble, Philosophy, Quotes, Socrates, War on March 8, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

― Socrates

[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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What Did You Do During The Great Blackout, Daddy?

Posted in General Comments, Guitar, Music, tagged Comcast, General Comments, Guitar, Internet Access, Korean Soap Operas, Luthier Skills, Netflix, Xfinity on August 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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.