Month: January 2025

A Problem With Pryia

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I started working on a post almost two hours ago. I was having trouble moving photos around. I tested my Internet speed, and while the download speed was normal for WiFi at 750 Mbps, my upload speed, which is normally 40 Mbps, was only 0.22 Mbps. I restarted my modem, but that didn’t help. I went to the troubleshooting bot, and it only tests download speeds, but after 30 minutes of doing whatever it does, the bot said it found some problems with my configuration, but couldn’t fix them and gave up.

I got back on and finally got on a live chat with Pryia after 15 minutes of typing “Chat with live person,” “Live chat,” “Real person” between the bot asking if I wanted to change my question. I told Pryia my problem, she tested my modem and said she had to reprovision my modem, add some new features to my service, and it would only cost me $10 a month more than I pay now. I said no, and she typed “let me explain for you…” I tried to explain why she needed to reprovision my modem and increase my monthly bill. I said no, again, and that I would check to see if there were any new services in the area I could switch to before I made a decision that would increase the monthly bill of my current service. Then I typed, “In the meantime, you need to fix my upload speed!”

She said she understood, changed her tone of writing, and asked how my day was going while she worked on the problem. I told her it was great until my upload speed went to hell and I couldn’t upload photos. In an attempt to appear nicer, she asked how my new year was, how my family was, how work was, etc., with all kinds of smiley and heart emojis. In the end, it took about 30 seconds for her to fix the problem. Why she couldn’t have simply done that from the start instead of giving a bunch of scammy BS trying to increase my monthly payments really pissed me off. After all that, I ran out of steam to post more photos.

Well Hung

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Early morning stars in the northern sky

On their second day at work, our two new staff members had the exciting task of helping me hang Laurie’s 6×9 foot (183×274 centimeter) painting. There were five staff members involved in the effort. I used L-brackets to secure it on the wall.

I also inherited the 40-inch (101.6 cm) screen on the right from Tristan because she didn’t want to ship it to Germany. I really spread out my spreadsheets on that screen.

Library

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Tristan left us a pair of bookshelves and a lot of books, so we put them in a library. I ordered a fireplace since the room is not heated and put it together this afternoon. We are still sorting out Tristan’s books and our books for the library. Since the top shelves on each side are a little over 8 feet high, we will eventually get a library ladder to access the top shelves. Our new library is cosy.

Tired of Wired

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Cranes flew over our Cuckoo’s Nest at dawn

Sunset through the finer wire on the Sally Port

Cats don’t close the door
Gotta keep the birds inside
Had to add fine wire

Smoking hutch

Daddy Longlegs

Cows in the dusty dusk

Sliver Moon with jet and contrail

Steaming hot mushrooms

Spunk worn out after boxing books

Black Lace Trees at sunset

In Coming

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Crescent Moon and Venus were in the Tangle Heart Tree tonight.

The above video is of cranes landing on the opposite side of the Rio Grande and then wading into the river at the end of the video. Turn up the volume so you can hear the cranes.

Gwendolyn and Silver

Crescent Moon and Venus in Black Lace Trees.

Alignment of Saturn in the top left (barely visible), Crescent Moon, and Venus in the lower right.