Was able to shop and find Xmas gifts for my little family online this year.

Got to be a The Lorax, and not have to leave the house. Huzzah!

ignorance is bliss - disengagement

Being a geek and nerd, I typically am on the Internet every day, sometimes for several hours.

I notice that most of the news sites I use mostly post news that causes me to become unhappy often.

I've decided that, as a way to internalize the sayings "think globally, act locally" and "try not to stress over ( Read more... )

Learned something new!

(Love it! + Too Funny) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wheatons-law.

Basically: when interacting on the Internet, "Don't be a d*ck."

Was looking through my previous entries about home internet performance. Realized I had not checked the house's wifi performance lately, nor on how this latest Debian Workstation laptop was doing.

Current home internet access is the combination of Spectrum cable internet-only service, their most-bandwidth service that is available for where we ( Read more... )

I do have My Little Family. We care about each other. We interact. So I am not alone, nor feel alone. So this entry is not about feeling alone.

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What I feel, and am posting about is: I find myself lately feeling that I do not have peers/friends to interact with for the fun things I enjoy.

At my workplace of the past 15+yrs, no one that I ( Read more... )

Switched internet providers from Earthlink/DSL to ATT/Uverse

I really really liked Earthlink/DSL. I didn't want to say good bye. They had provided my little family with our DSL for over 10yrs. Reliably. Afford-ably.

The trouble was, speedtest.net showed our DSL service was 1.3Mbit down/0.3Mbit up.

For 10yrs, when internet usage at my house ( Read more... )