Today I will hang out for the cable guy. Spectrum sent new equipment, and I am too electronically illiterate to play with it unless I want to spend some frustrated hours doing so. I do not. In honor of the occasion, and to take advantage of the one for all service call, (65.00), I also went out last night and bought a new windows 11 computer with 16 GB Ram, 1 TB of storage, and a Ryzen 7 processor. I understand the RAM and storage, but the other flock of specs are beyond my willingness to learn. I simply gave the computer guy a list of what I expected from the machine, and he gave me the system with a reasonable, in my mind, bill. The system is an old fashion desktop, just like me. My current junk is several years old and with WIN 10 being discontinued it was time to replace.
Will be spending the next hour disconnecting existing stuff so the cable person has a clean slate to work from. I was in the shop from 4 to 8 AM building a new piece for the audio/video system to make the work easier for the tech as well as to "clean up" my area.
Linda went to the doc for a second update on her shoulder surgery. They will do an XRay to check the healing process, and I expect to grab a few more bucks. So far, our share of the bills is about 1200 dollars and that does not include the co-insurance that I expect from the surgeon, likely a few hundred more, or the anesthesiologist, likely another 3 hundred. We budgeted 1,500 for her surgery and it will likely exceed that by anywhere from 500 to 700 bucks. That is a heavy load but pales in relation to the total cost and a relatively small part of the total paid by the insurance people. We are VERY fortunate to be able to pay these charges without ruining our lifestyle. We will forgo a 4 day trip we had planned for July and that will make us whole, I think. Life will go on.
Water changes today on the fry tank and the rainbow tank.
Will be spending the next hour disconnecting existing stuff so the cable person has a clean slate to work from. I was in the shop from 4 to 8 AM building a new piece for the audio/video system to make the work easier for the tech as well as to "clean up" my area.
Linda went to the doc for a second update on her shoulder surgery. They will do an XRay to check the healing process, and I expect to grab a few more bucks. So far, our share of the bills is about 1200 dollars and that does not include the co-insurance that I expect from the surgeon, likely a few hundred more, or the anesthesiologist, likely another 3 hundred. We budgeted 1,500 for her surgery and it will likely exceed that by anywhere from 500 to 700 bucks. That is a heavy load but pales in relation to the total cost and a relatively small part of the total paid by the insurance people. We are VERY fortunate to be able to pay these charges without ruining our lifestyle. We will forgo a 4 day trip we had planned for July and that will make us whole, I think. Life will go on.
Water changes today on the fry tank and the rainbow tank.
