Posted on 02/19/2022 11:52:26 AM PST by upchuck
After a three week absence which ran from Feb 5 to 19, I'm back.
Some FReepers will celebrate my return. Others will feel differently :)
Long story short, I live out in the country in Aiken County, SC. Nearest neighbors are 1/4 mile away and we don't communicate that much.
Due to the remote location, there is no "wired Internet" out here. I chose to use my cell phone's Hotspot to connect to my home computer and the cell tower located about .75 mile from here.
This worked fine for 4+ years. I use the Internet A LOT to keep up with happenings. Don't watch TV. Don't own a TV, etc.
On Feb 5 this year my hotspot connected to the computer just as always. But for some reason it wouldn't connect to the cell tower. Thus endeth upchuck's connection to FR.
Now the Hotspot is working properly again and I'm back to harass my FReeper friends. I manage several ping lists and pings will start again when appropriate. Sure is nice to be home again.
Ghost. Patrick Swazy and woopie cushion.
Here’s some cheap TVs in South Carolina.
Since you weren’t virtue signaling, you must have been complaining.
https://www.walmart.com/browse/electronics/refurbished-tvs/3944_1060825_1229815_3304195
When you get out of prison, you may eventually be able to afford one of them.
Good luck, convict!
You should try Starlink. It’s a little spendy, but I hear it’s fantastic. A friend up in TR (That’s Traveler’s Rest to the non SC folks) just got it and is raving about it.
Rightwing Dirtbags everywhere are cringing at the thought of being associated with humblegunner.
We enjoy you, too!
Glad the Covid Monster didn’t get you.
My internet went down for a whole 15 minutes yesterday. My two grands were here, ages 11 and 8.
They freaked out! They were in an intense Minecraft game, and were suddenly knocked off!
You’d think it was the end of the world.
So.. biscuits?
Or did you want to write something else but someone ripped off your letters?
Your troubles could be radiation from SRS. However, I am certain you have a glowing personality
In 1992 .... I joined free republic shortly after that.
***That’s one of the earliest signup dates I’ve ever seen claimed. Back in the old BBS days.
Is that the best you can do?
Better go back to the Don Rickles School of Insults.
You need a refresher course.
Insults?
Those were questions.
Sober up.
That is questionable.
:) I’m so pretty when I glow.
Amen, and....welcome back 🎶
Grands are biscuits. Maybe pianos.
Don't get snippy with me because you use goofball terminology.
Try this:
G-R-A-N-D-C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N
What kind of FReeper are you, upchuck?
You didn’t put “Boom!” in the headline, and you failed to post this in Breaking News.
You must have no regard at all for tradition.
Welcome home.
Glad to have you back on board
I’m sorry, I can’t think of a funny reply.
“Goin home Goin home , they’ll all come out to greet me, Goin home”
What do you call the exact opposite of an “opus”?
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