IrishAyes
IrishAyes's JournalI wrote Jeff Dietrich a good-length email
Explaining my situation, personality, and health prospects. I have the DNA to become a hale and hearty centenarian. But who knows what might happen along the way, and I really do need to change my will soon for the possibility of sudden departure. I wanted to be upfront with them and explain I'm not looking for a caregiver yet! and may never need one, Lord willing. Still, I've always been sort of organized that way and want to get my affairs in order for any eventuality. One way or another, at one time or another, it would be great to have something to leave them so they could maybe open a sister house. I never knew before reading their website that they ever went into rural areas. Believe me, they'd get called worse than 'hippie' here - yet they could be just what this area needs to civilize the teabaggers a little! If the locals hate my politics, wait until they get a look at real Christian activists.
Thanks, I'll look into that.
It's the new device already ordered, though, that's indoor/outdoor and about 3 times stronger than the present unsatisfactory Speed (ha!) King that I'm using now. Obviously that works somewhat because I'm online - but the window has to be open, which won't be good for winter, and it just barely works at best. If the wi-fi signal booster that's on order proves insufficient as well, I might be forced to get one of those you're suggesting.
But can you tell me, does a bridge device leave me more open to hackers than what I've got now? I trust my friend absolutely, but he keeps an open signal meaning people we don't know could snoop. Since my favorite browser's still Chrome, I got one of their free VPN apps.
Regardless, any device wears out eventually, so I like to archive info for later retrieval when and if needed.
Well, at least we're a well named group.
Actually I spend a great deal of time in the BOG and Pets plus a few others. But much as I like the people here, they can be kinda hard to find.
Today the weather was good and I got outdoors a lot to work and play with the dogs, but haven't spoken directly with another live person all day. Which is okay, because most of them make my hair hurt. Basically I love people, even in real life - I just prefer my own company in real time most of the time, although I now have one nice friend on the other block. It's very convenient, too; she's getting to where she can't drive and I decided long ago not to maintain a car. Luckily we get along quite well. But even so close, we can go a couple weeks w/o speaking.
Of course a lot of 'normals' don't understand, and my post here could easily sound antisocial or egotistical. Don't mean it that way. Not at all. But although it's sad to say, most of the locals have no idea how boring they are, partly because any other progressives who might be out there keep hunkered down for safety. If you lived here, you'd know what I mean.
Coupons? What are coupons?
At least locally in this tiny town in RedNeckLand, we're dang lucky even to have a medium-size grocery and one dented-cans outlet. Neither take coupons; the grocery doesn't even pay for ads in the local weekly (or anywhere else) because they know most people have nowhere else much to go anyhow. To help normal people picture this, the nearest Walmart is about 60 miles away.
Oh well. I grow a lot of my fruits and veggies anyway. If anyone else has false fantasies about retiring to smalltown America, realize there are many trade-offs for what you get. This place imagines itself Mayberry but Peyton Place would be closer. The rates for violent and property crimes are pretty low, but the main recreation around here seems to be character assassination. Because my house is a hundred years old, the property tax is a whopping $184 a year, but when the residents aren't chewing up each other, they're also xenophobic as geese, especially regarding liberals.
I'm just saying there are tradeoffs for affordability, and people need to remember that. I had 3 different people ask me who's Bob Dylan when the subject of music arose. If you engage at all, your jaw will often drop to the floor. That is, if someone doesn't knock it off first. Your jaw, I mean; not the floor.
I looked into those homemade booster designs
and didn't go with the beer can because a) I boycott Coors for political reasons, and this tiny town doesn't carry the only other kind I like, either German dark beer or Corona. And b) I'd probably cut myself and bleed to death anyway.
But the present unsatisfactory Speed (ha!) King has 2 antennas and I put copper pot scrubbers on each, which seemed to help a little.
Yes, I can see over both fences because they're only 4' tall, and I'm not quite that short. But even when I placed the SP higher than that, it didn't seem to make much difference.
Thanks, btw, for all the help.
Ewwww...
Maybe that's been part of the problem. I have a 1920's style scallop-top metal fence all around my place, and he has a modern chain link fence - a very nice one, but still, from what you say - I hope I stand a ghost of a chance for better reception. But I darn sure won't hang the booster in a parrot cage, no matter how pretty!
Yet another of my weird ideas
As some may remember, I'm currently piggybacking on a friend's terrible wi-fi signal because I'm in deep-saving mode for another round of major home renovation. Anyway, the first little Speed King (ha!) wi-fi signal booster I bought only works in an open window. I wasn't too familiar with signal boosters and bought the wrong one first time. Now I've ordered what should be a dandy from my new favorite online electronics store, WorldStart.com in which I promise I have NO stock whatsoever. But a friend recommended it to me and I appreciated it very much, so I'm passing the word along.
Anyway, back to my idea: The new signal booster on the way is indoor/outdoor but I don't want to drill any avoidable holes in my house, so I'll still put it in the window. When I went out to the shed this morning, I saw the big metal parrot cage on its tall metal stand, and I thought Bingo! I'll try that. At the very least it will look odd enough to serve as a conversation starter in the living room! I'd probably make some dumb reply about wondering why that critter never learned to talk.
Main question is, do any of the group techies here think being surrounded by all that metal might actually give the device a little extra boost whether it's really needed or not?
Amen to that.
And the most of the doctors would love that scenario too. Like you I've always enjoyed good health overall, regardless of the occasional mishap. Although I tried to appreciate other girls' predicament, I couldn't even relate fully to monthly cramps because I never had them. No zits. I've probably had less than a dozen headaches my entire life, and those were minor, cured with a single aspirin. Etc. But that doesn't make me a better person or more loved by God. I was given the strength and stamina to help others as well as myself.
For years in healthcare I watched over terminal patients and appreciated the privilege of being with them when they passed. They did far more for me than I ever could have for them. My own soul has been granted a level of peace I could've gained no other way. What I've seen and heard would defy the belief of many people.
Great post.
But I can tell you exactly what President Obama's done for me (actually everyone) in the last 48 hours. Stood in the breach between the bad (Repuke) guys both foreign and domestic, and the rest of us. For me that's the essence of the matter. If I had any related talent, I'd write a song about that.
This is such a feel-good OP
I had to come back and read it again, slowly, with a contented smile and a cup of coffee.
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