My phone has decided it cannot use the 5G network it says it is connected to. I can send and receive calls and texts but the internet does not work at all. I cannot figure out what the problem is and nothing I’ve tried has worked, though I haven’t called the carrier yet. While this is technically a minor inconvenience, it does render me unable to access the Kindercare App that daycare uses to update me on how the children are doing during the day. I’m sure if there are big problems, they will call me, so there is nothing I’m really missing but I like being able to see what the kids are doing.
I’m used to spam in my e-mail. Much of it I assume is just on blast in case I need whatever it is they are pitching. For example, according to my e-mail, the greatest invention in the last 50 years is a bright flashlight.
But my God, the “get out of your time share” e-mails are driving me up the wall. At least 10 a day. But here’s the thing–I’ve never owned a timeshare. Never contemplated owning a time share. Never once in my life googled any information regarding a time share (either purchasing or ditching). So why oh why do I keep getting time share e-mails???
Somewhat related…a week or so ago I googled some flooring options. Carpet v. hardwood, etc. Now almost every pop-up, sidebar, banner is from Empire or some other flooring company. Ok, it’s annoying, but I get it.
But timeshares?
My mini-rant of the day:
Fuck Transitions lenses, and the assholes who make them.
They don’t fucking work when it gets hot out. And I don’t mean dangerous-to-human-life hot, I mean high seventies.
You can stand on a street at noon on a cloudless summer day, and they just won’t darken more than a token amount.
They work great in cold weather. I bought them, if I remember right, in February of last year. They seemed like such a great idea. I wouldn’t have to carry around two pairs of glasses. So convenient. And for a few months, I thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I understood that they wouldn’t work behind glass. No problem, I keep a pair of (prescription) sunglasses in the car.
And then the weather got hot.
So, a year and more later, I still have them, because I paid for them, and my prescription seems to still be the same.
But they’re not worth the money.
Unless you live in Antarctica, I guess. Then they’d be great.
That’s odd. Mine work in the car, which is why I bought them. I don’t like having to wear those overlays on my regular glasses.
My transition lenses work fine in the 105° heat here in the ‘semi-arid’ steppes.
Oh, sweet beagle, I hope you are done with the throwing up. This morning the other dogs would not go near the backdoor due to the foul odor of dog vomit. Fingers crossed that whatever was bothering him is out of his system now.
That money I set aside is for my vacation later this month, not the vet!
OK, this may be the first odor I’ve heard of that a dog would refuse to investigate.
At first I was surprised when none of them were congregating at the door to go out…the closer I got to the door, the less surprised I was. 
I have completed (sort of) the rehabilitation of my kitchen sink drain by installing the new tailpiece I mentioned in my previous rant.
So why the new rant? Just ranting about how very few things in real life work out as well as they do in YouTube instructional videos. Why the hell was it impossible to screw down the plastic nut on the lower end when the exact correct washer was in place? I ended up removing the washer (the workmanship principle here is called “fuck it!”). You may well ask, how was it fastened before? Couldn’t I have reused the original washer? The answer is: there was no original washer. Apparently whoever plumbed those drains was also an advocate of the “fuck it!” principle. However, since it never leaked in the ten years I’ve been here, until it finally literally came apart because the original tailpiece was much too short, I guess I’ll leave it at that. I drained a half sink full of water and the pipes stayed dry so I’m done. Fuck it.
Saintly_Loser -
Can you do contact lenses? I use to use the transitions back when they first came out since my sight was so bad. They worked… OK. I then got contacts. I could then just have a pair of sunglasses with me without them being prescription.
I finally ditched the contacts and got LASIK. Was a great move.
Then I needed reading glasses. So I had dozens of them spread around and couldn’t go anywhere with out a pair.
Then, about 3 years ago, I developed a cataract in my left eye. Got it fixed and my new lens in the eye itself is good for reading and distance. In the other eye I wear a contact lens that is also good for distance and reading. I throw the lens out every night and pop in a new one in the morning. One US dollar a day for the contact.
I see better than I ever have in my entire life. I don’t have to fiddle with reading glasses anymore, and just buy good sunglasses that I use any way (Colorado mountains require good sun glasses).
I’ve pretty much done it all. PM me if you would like.
Have you gotten your second jab yet? I understand that helps!
My rant: I have a motherfucking goddamned asshole ingrown hair on my pussy lip. FUCKFUCKFUCK!!!
Usually, if it gets stuck here, if you use the “reset network settings” option, it will clear it up.
Yes, that is a good suggestion, that has helped. You can also do a reset of the phone which is often more than turning it on and off. If it’s an Apple phone there is a fairly cumbersome procedure that varies from model to model. If it’s an Android phone then it might be really easy or difficult, again depending on the model. You can look up how to do it. But doing a reset of network settings is pretty simple and relatively painless.
This is extremely simple on my Samsung Android. Not sure about other models/manufacturers. It will delete all remembered wi-fi logins, and it will also erase all prior Bluetooth connections. But that’s certainly something I would try before contacting the carrier.
Does the phone work with wi-fi?
Heatwave, Wildfire Smoke, Broken Waterpipe in the yard. Okay.
Walk out tonight and I got MOSQUITOS! Simple Assault was the word for what I endured. Seemed like a coordinated attack.
Last night was puppy class and it was a good one! Twelve dogs, twelve stations, ten minutes spent at each station. There was a tunnel, a teeter-totter, hurdles, a ramp, etc.
The idea was, we’d been taught how to train our dogs to do things like sit and stay. Now we had to teach them to do new “tricks” on the fly. Kizzy was great. We’ve already been doing things like this whenever the opportunity arose at home. We’ve worked hard with her and last night made us realize it’s been worth it.
Now the rant. The couple next to us who never seem to understand what’s going on and who obviously are putting zero effort into the homework were their usual selfs. She was complaining to us that she wishes she’d gotten a smart dog like Kizzy. At one point my gf politely pointed out to her that we’ve been spending a couple hours each day on the homework. Oh, and for the third consecutive class her dog shit. I saw the signs that it was going to happen, the owners did not.
I switched from Xfinity to FIOS yesterday. The increase in my Internet speed is astonishing and very gratifying.
Disappointingly, FIOS doesn’t carry one of my favorite channels, Decades. Or rather, they do carry it, but not in THIS subscription area. Poop.
On the plus side, I thought they only carried one PBS station instead of the three I had with Xfinity and that the one was all the way across the state. Turns out they carry two of the local stations, so that I’m happy about.
My yard is trying to kill me.
In one 24-hour period this week, I cut my finger while using the cordless hedge trimmers. slipped on the pond bank and fell in while trimming weeds on the edge and had a drooping tree branch catch on the front of the mower, bend and then whip back, slamming me in the face.
And the coyotes were howling last night.
It’s not safe.
You know they were laughing at your misfortune.
I tried both of these things and was unsuccessful. It just would not create a stable connection to the internet.
At the time, I didn’t have a WIFI network available for me to connect to so I did know. However, when I left work, my phone randomly started working again. Now before you are like “so you just didn’t have reception?” I had bars. My phone said it had bars and that it was connected. It was weird.
Oh well, it is working now.
Rant for today - Adding one person to the family has made me completely incapable of keeping track of baths. I sent my daughter to daycare today with slime in her hair, slime from yesterday. I didn’t even know it was there until I was dropping her off. I swear she’s loved.
It may not have even been your phone, it might have been a problem with your carrier. If it doesn’t happen again I’d chalk it up to that.
The bars just show how your connection is to a tower, they won’t indicate if the tower or anything it is connecting to are having problems.