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More Memory is Always Needed

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Not to trifle with my internet

You might laugh at me and that’s okay! The story goes like this just as soon as we get a little disclaimer out of the way:

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Not to trifle with my internet

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You might laugh at me and that’s okay! The story goes like this:

Yesterday, I woke up and doing my usual morning routine. All ready to check things off the ta do list. Here I am already to give my relatives the run down for the day only to discover I have zero internet. I fussed till noon before I couldn’t take it no more. Pull stuff out and unplug stuff. Replug stuff and rearrange where it’s plugged in. Nothin! Okay so it’s not me and it’s not on my end. Mind you this was one of the reasons I upgraded 20+ year old equipment. So maybe I should have just kept the old equipment. By noon, I decided that I’m calling the phone company and all I got was a busy signal. Call two, call three, call four all busy signal. By 8:00pm I had enough and just went to bed. Telling myself I’m gonna call that phone company one more time when I get up the next day. Morning rolls around and I do my usual routine. Wait for the spouse to leave so I can make that phone call. (I don’t want him here to hear what I have to say). Get him out the door and he leaves the drive way. I’m ready. Dial the phone….Ooooo I got thru, oh but wait… I get to talk to the computer and it ensures me it can help me. Great! In the mean time I want to give some body a piece of my mind of this injustice, especially after the cost of the new upgrade. That silly computer system deflated my balloon real fast and it (autonomous) didn’t help at all. At this point, I gave up altogether. Decided that if it wasn’t my new equipment and it periodically comes on and goes off. I wasn’t going to worry to much about it except I do have my peeps and bills that need to be addressed. Here I am the third day, spastic internet. I decided to check to see what I can do on word press in between this erratic internet. Oooooo.. lookie, here I see notifications and can read a bit. Ohhh and look at this. I can write a much needed blog post. Late. But at least I’m getn’r done. Oh! Wait! Can’t post it until the internet comes back on. Ugh! I really need to give that phone company a call to see if I can get a discount for at least not having internet for this long. Maybe tomorrow they will get called again.

Go ahead and laugh. I will laugh too can’t help but laugh. It’s times like these that one doesn’t realize how much one depends on the internet. I use to do a lot of things old school but times have changed so much that this is no longer sustainable. So it’s really distressing when my internet goes down for two days let alone three.

I truly feel for any folks out there that have lost there internet too. Never mind the fact that one can’t run an online business without it.

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UPDATE: I want to stress here that I was warned well in advance that the instructions for said equipment above was available online. (Conserving on paper instructions for equipment. You know the drill to save the planet and environment.) Great, I thought and didn’t give it much thought. I did read it but it was well in advance for the equipment to arrive. The bad news is this: Everyday life got in the way and I literally forgot about the instruction book until when? You guess it! Gosh your good at this! Smart people! I love smart people you can learn so much! Anyway, I’m getting off topic here… I did think of those silly instructions until I had zero internet and literally plum forgot even what I read. However, after unplugging this and that.. Eliminated that one item. Oh well it helps to have the right phone cord plug into…… you guessed it again…. the machine that produces the internet. Needless to say folks I wouldn’t be typing this with out it. Buttttttt……. I want to give a heads up to the companies who thought of only providing the instruction book via internet that they offer the option of paper ones…… us rural people as well as the old need them.

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Don’t feel Defeated by Machines

I want to say that I really didn’t want to miss you all but the last few days have been a bit of a whirl wind. I have been anxiously awaiting for a new printer. It finally arrived while I had to go to town for a appointment. While this is not about my appointment or about the date I had with my spouse. I want to just say it was a nice day and it felt good to be out of the house after several months of being cooped in. It felt good to have the sun warm my soul. Needless to say, we were in town all day. (to ourselves with masks on when needed.) By the time we got home we were to wore out. The only thing that I had enough energy for was to open the packages that came in the mail. A nice pretty purple, simple printer. Lightweight and moveable. Unlike the big one we have that is heavy, a pain to run, died a few years ago and its currently not liking me at all. When I reflected back on yesterday, it has occurred to me that I really missed watching people, the smell of the mills, the sounds of the cars, the flowers, the business of the people going into stores, the trees (flowering type) and just so much more.

Today, I thought I would be brave and plug that cute, new, printer in. Um, No instructions, No software, and this could not be a good sign. Well, I got this.. right… Plug cords in and turn on.. Oh got to put the ink in. Shut off and put the ink in. Turn back on. Run up the stairs to grab the paper. Lets see if this little baby is going to work. So much excitement just got deflated when I see these flashing lights….. no paper going thru. Whyyyyy?? Whyyyy me??? This voice says stop and check everything. Cords are plugged in, the ink cartridges are in, button is on. I know change the paper. Maybe it don’t like the paper. Run back upstairs and find different paper. Tried that and nope that didn’t work either. Hmm well, there is another cord and lets hook up the computer and lets try some trouble shooting. Well I found out that HP is doing away with paper instructions. Nice to know! Ha! Yes, found software. Downloaded and went thru all the appropriate steps. Well, that still didn’t solve the problem. HP had me download an update on the software that I just downloaded. Can you believe that? But low and behold it told me that something was jammed in the printer. Really!!! Yep, that smart little cookie printer was right. I pulled out this piece that made me want to panic as I thought oh boy, this thing must have got broken on its trip here. Luckily, I did send an item from my computer to the printer. I wish you all could see how I excited I am over this sweet little printer. I’ve been printing everything that is important that’s been on my computer for sometime. Mostly one pagers, or two. But I have some biggies that are going to take a lot of ink. I’m a bit stingy with my ink for the moment until I can order more ink. Anyway, I just want to say here this has been a long but eventful day. (my computer has been complaining that it has a full memory) I’ve been dumping files where ever I can. You tube videos take a lot of memory. I do hope that I can get back to my favorite pass time soon. The next couple of weeks is going to be extremely busy. There is still a lot to learn, do, and not do. My point for this post is this. If, you get a new machine. Don’t let it defeat you. Don’t be afraid of it. There is always a solution somewhere. When you beat it, give your self a pat on the back. You deserve and earned it.

Cute little purple printer. Blue tape was replaced after use so our four legged friends wouldn’t break the plastic parts.

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Revision

This article was first published April 30, 2021 and September 19, 2021 the article was revised to add color to the text and to provide structure to a sentence.