Awake: 5:58am Temp 49 sleep 6+52 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
K & I attend 8:00 am Mass & afterward, talk with Rosemary for about (15) min. She lost her husband, Herm, earlier this year. She says it’s been difficult without him but she has so many kids & grandchildren to keep her busy, she’s doing alright. We intend to pay her a visit soon.
@ the Koffee Klub meeting, there were so many “hot topics” I found it difficult to assign just one for the day; usually when the distinguished Mayor of Nicktown honors us with a visit, our world expands ten-fold.
From here, we visit the Krumenacker Hardware again; this time to purchase (2) large water filters for our pump house # 2. Today I intend to access our well water & have it hooked up to our motorhome.
After breakfast, I run the well pump in # 2 pump house for over (3) hrs discharging water onto the ground without filtering; making sure all the sediment is flushed out since it has been dormant since last September. During this time, I finish connecting the new smaller filter to the portable unit; then install the (2) big new filters in pump house # 2; then run water thru all (4) of the new filters for (15) min & make the connection to our motorhome.
Now that the water project is finished, I am ready to get our high speed Internet hooked up & running. Using the Quick Start Guide from Verizon, I install all the filters (electronic not water) on my regular phones, then run the Y-cable from the phone jack to the modem, Ethernet cable from the modem to the computer & connect the power cord to the modem. I hold off turning on the modem until I am asked when running the DVD setup program.
When running the DVD software, all went as advertised until I had to make choices that I felt unnecessary. That’s when I called my computer buddy expert Ray in Ocean Shores, WA. He informed me that I don’t need to choose @ all; “just keep your normal home page” he tells me. “OK, Ray, but how do I back up?” That’s when I make a call to Verizon or so I thought.
My 800 call was answered by a nice young female in Manila, Philippines; she spoke very good English. We spend the next hr & 42 min, phones glued to our ears. She couldn’t get the modem address changed to operate the Ethernet; we went thru many tests of the equipment to no avail. We were both very patient with each other & that was good. Finally, after consulting with the top analysts in the building, (600) employees, she proclaimed that our modem has a problem & she will have a new one shipped by UPS in (2) business days. Meanwhile she did get the wireless portion of the DSL working for now. I thanked her for her calm & patient manner + technical expertise & suggested that she take a coffee break before her next call.
Dinner: leftover Tuna steak with Triscuits.
DVR movie: continue watching “Sleuth.” This time Kathy lasted about (30) min before the 1st blackout. I was nice; I gave her (2) more chances & then closed the theatre for the night.
High temp=79 Lights out: 12:12am
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