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gilltyascharged · Dec 4, 2023

Rocky998 said:
It'll be like that one scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
"If that thing had nine lives, it just spent them all"

You say that, but one of them, Whiskey D***head Ginger, has actually managed to catch himself on fire. Long story short, we now have to have child locks on our gas stove. The picture attached is of him perching a little over 10' above our front door- take that as you will.

biofish · Dec 9, 2023

Please enjoy my ping pongs: Double Double, Whopper, Big Mac, and Chunk.

I got them 3 months ago.

They are very chubby and good and spark so much joy

davros · Dec 9, 2023

jaylach said:
You MAY not have to change over any of your devices. I assume the devices connect via Wi-Fi so just use the same password on the new router as you used on the old and everything SHOULD still connect.

If the telco sends the router you likely don't get to set the SSID.

The telco tell me I have to move to VOIP at my new location- yet they pretend they are on a copper based network and won't let me keep my existing number. Chose a new provider...

jaylach · Dec 10, 2023

davros said:
If the telco sends the router you likely don't get to set the SSID.

The telco tell me I have to move to VOIP at my new location- yet they pretend they are on a copper based network and won't let me keep my existing number. Chose a new provider...

To be honest I didn't think of the possibility of an SSID issue. Good point.

Essjay · Dec 10, 2023

In the UK, we have little choice about switching provider to avoid VOIP. There are two companies which own cable networks, Virgin and BT. Every other internet and landline phone provider uses BT cables; Virgin is the only company which uses their cables. BT owns the copper network and their fibre network. Virgin only has fibre.
So when BT switch off the copper cables region by region, the only choice we have is go to Virgin or VOIP with every other provider. We still keep our phone numbers unless we move out of the exchange's region, but that's always been the case. We've had 4 phone numbers over the years when we've moved to a different place.

Back in the fold · Dec 10, 2023

@biofish I saw your pictures of Double Double , Whopper , Big Mac and Chunk and immediately felt a great big smile on my face . There’s a calendar picture if I ever saw one !

biofish · Dec 26, 2023

How was everyone’s Christmas?

My new pup had a blast for her first Christmas! She was very into tearing the wrapping paper in as small of scraps as she could get. You can’t go anywhere in the house without lots of paper scraps (including my bed unfortunately

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connorlindeman · Dec 26, 2023

biofish said:
How was everyone’s Christmas?

My new pup had a blast for her first Christmas! She was very into tearing the wrapping paper in as small of scraps as she could get. You can’t go anywhere in the house without lots of paper scraps (including my bed unfortunately )

We had a chill Christmas this year. No guests, just a nice dinner and some karaoke.

biofish · Dec 26, 2023

connorlindeman said:
We had a chill Christmas this year. No guests, just a nice dinner and some karaoke.

I don’t know how people do it with guests

My family has only ever celebrated with the 5 of us— we aren’t close with our extended family at all and we don’t really have any friends we like *that* much.