Friday 08/30/2024
Took a slightly shorter walk in the morning, although I made up for it with another walk later (3.7 mi). Then printed up and put out a new set of Thames bridges pictures. One more change, in September, and then in October I will fill both picture rails with shots of Tower Bridge from every angle, and then in November I will have to think of a new class of pictures to post.
Then took a tech squad call: Miriam’s tv would only show her basic channels, PBS, ABC, etc. If she tried to go to CNN or ESPN or such, it put up a smarmy Comcast error message “Sorry, there seems to be a problem here”. Rebooting the Comcast box didn’t help. I’d never seen the like. But the message had an error code. If a message has an error code, you can google it. Well, I don’t Google as a point of principle, but it’s clumsy to say you can duck-duck-go it. Anyway, of course other people had seen the same problem and several had a solution. You can make your Comcast do a “system refresh”. This is apparently a reboot plus a refresh of info from the Xfinity mother ship. It takes 20 minutes to do, but afterward the message was gone and all the channels were back.
Another top tech tip: don’t get superglue on your finger tip. I was fixing one of my picture frames this morning and got glue on the tip of the finger I use with the Touch ID pad to unlock my laptop. Now it can’t recognize my fingerprint. Nor my phone, except at least with the phone, I had trained it to recognize both my right pointing finger AND my left thumb. So I could unlock it while holding it in my left hand.
In the afternoon I practiced my two performance songs and my voice was “in”. Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. Today it was rich and resonant, I sounded so masculine, like Johnny Cash’s little brother Cletus. Music is fun when it works.
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