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labeeman · 2026-09-15T09:46:15-0400

Caledon Ken said:
Good day everyone.

Raining here.

Wow Borg, you do not get a break. Amazon just screwed up a package of mine. Guys are rushing to keep ahead of their AI monitors. Thankfully mine was all Amazon, bought and shipped. When they couldn't show delivery proof they credited. In the hills around me it is bad. If you have a long driveway they will not venture up and just leave it roadside where the other fine citizens believe it is their package.

Hello Ken

Josey Wales · 2026-09-15T09:48:32-0400

Caledon Ken said:
Good day everyone.

Raining here.

Wow Borg, you do not get a break. Amazon just screwed up a package of mine. Guys are rushing to keep ahead of their AI monitors. Thankfully mine was all Amazon, bought and shipped. When they couldn't show delivery proof they credited. In the hills around me it is bad. If you have a long driveway they will not venture up and just leave it roadside where the other fine citizens believe it is their package.

Good day Ken, stay dry.

labeeman · 2026-09-15T09:50:47-0400

Borg 386 said:
Well, that's good to hear you got something good when they replaced it. But you still get DSL over fiber? I know you mentioned some time back you were using DSL

DSL stands for Digital Subscriber Line. I also cut the phone line a long time ago and am cell phone only.
With DSL I was only able to get 50 megabits. With fiber, I get the bottom of what they sell, which is 300 megabits I can get a gigabit but it is not needed.

Borg 386 · 2026-09-15T09:55:47-0400

Well, call us old fashioned but we prefer the landline. Like I said, isolated area, looked up the stats for our area, only 24% of the area has 5G coverage. Most of the area is filled with "dead zones" when it comes to cell signals.

I

Marie SWE · 2026-09-15T10:07:19-0400

Bree said:
Yeah, a little low, but I'm leaving the curtains open so the light wakes me.
I want to get in closer sync with daylight hours before the clocks change later this month.

oh. so you do that this month... we do that in October

at least this time, the clock is changing to our advantage so we get an hour more sleep.

Bree · 2026-09-15T10:08:23-0400

Caledon Ken said:
Good day everyone.

Raining here.

Wow Borg, you do not get a break. Amazon just screwed up a package of mine. Guys are rushing to keep ahead of their AI monitors. Thankfully mine was all Amazon, bought and shipped. When they couldn't show delivery proof they credited. In the hills around me it is bad. If you have a long driveway they will not venture up and just leave it roadside where the other fine citizens believe it is their package.

Good morning Ken.

Dry today, and starting to see a bit more sun for the afternoon.

For deliveries I'm spoilt for choice. There's a parcel point at my local shop, just a few hundred yard up the road. They are a collection point for Amazon, DHL, Evri and InPost. They are also a sending point too, which is useful now I've started selling a few things on eBay. Royal Mail is the only one that I still have to get delivered to my door, but for sending I can scan small packages into the system at a post box 50 yards from my door, or for larger parcels at my nearest post office, less than a mile away.

Marie SWE · 2026-09-15T10:08:33-0400

Borg 386 said:
Morning Marie from us both,

Thank you. We'll probably stop at the cafeteria if all goes well.

Morning

that sounds as a good plan, so you also can enjoy the day out at the same time

Marie SWE · 2026-09-15T10:09:09-0400

Caledon Ken said:
Good day everyone.

Raining here.

Wow Borg, you do not get a break. Amazon just screwed up a package of mine. Guys are rushing to keep ahead of their AI monitors. Thankfully mine was all Amazon, bought and shipped. When they couldn't show delivery proof they credited. In the hills around me it is bad. If you have a long driveway they will not venture up and just leave it roadside where the other fine citizens believe it is their package.

Good Morning Ken

Borg 386 · 2026-09-15T10:15:08-0400

Marie SWE said:
Morning
that sounds as a good plan, so you also can enjoy the day out at the same time

Yeah, all depends on a few things, how she feels & hopefully she doesn't have any "accidents."

they have good food there, although I'm staying away from the fries from this point on. They air fry everything (more healthy) & they just don't taste right, & they tend to sit in my stomach for a while.

Bree · 2026-09-15T10:15:28-0400

Marie SWE said:
oh. so you do that this month... we do that in October
at least this time, the clock is changing to our advantage so we get an hour more sleep.

Did I say this month? I meant next month. We return to GMT on Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 2:00 am.

I need to be careful not to sleep in too late as we approach the shortest day, in years past I have been known to not rise until after sunset. Leaving the curtains open is a relatively painless way to keep resetting my body clock and stop it drifting too much

Caledon Ken · 2026-09-15T10:20:22-0400

Morning Charlie

Morning Josey

Morning Marie

Afternoon Bree

Living in an urban centre usually means way more options for shipping / receiving. The Staples near us acts as a drop off and receive point if you so choose. The big services like UPS have their own shops and we have a real post office branch.

If you are returning something to amazon you print a QR code and take the item to Staples. No boxes, packaging or anything. They put a label on the item and throw it in a bin.

I think every major service drives by my house every day. Some days I see Fed Ex twice and Amazon you can't count. They come by 4:00 am, mid day and the evening and some one ofs. Crazy.

Marie SWE · 2026-09-15T10:22:00-0400

Today i got my parts i had ordered, so i have just made me a 10 centimeter(4inch'ish) extension cord to my car battery, as i had to put in the wrong battery and had to twist it 180degrees to get + and - on the right side, but the battery terminals is pointing forward instead of inward, so i have to run the cables over the battery.. and the + cable was to short for that trick... so i had to make a temporary extension cord that can take the amps.
Its just a temporary solution to move the car, so this hack will do for now.

Marie SWE · 2026-09-15T10:24:47-0400

Bree said:
We return to GMT on Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 2:00 am.

I need to be careful not to sleep in too late as we approach the shortest day, in years past I have been known to not rise until after sunset. Leaving the curtains open is a relatively painless way to keep resetting my body clock and stop it drifting too much

oh, you wrote later this month.. its just September now

I dont know the exact date.. i know its the night between Saturday/Sunday at 2AM

Bree · 2026-09-15T10:29:02-0400

Marie SWE said:
oh, you wrote later this month.. its just September now
I dont know the exact date.. i know its the night between Saturday/Sunday at 2AM

Yeah, I was getting a bit ahead of myself

We're the same date as you, the last Sunday of October. Our friends across the Pond change on the first Sunday in November.

Bree · 2026-09-15T10:39:02-0400

Borg 386 said:
Well, call us old fashioned but we prefer the landline. Like I said, isolated area, looked up the stats for our area, only 24% of the area has 5G coverage. Most of the area is filled with "dead zones" when it comes to cell signals.

When I switched from copper to fibre I also switched my landline number to VOIP, mainly so I didn't have to work out which of my friends and/or government or hospital departments only had my landline as a contact number

Borg 386 · 2026-09-15T10:45:33-0400

Bree said:
When I switched from copper to fibre I also switched my landline number to VOIP, mainly so I didn't have to work out which of my friends and/or government or hospital departments only had my landline as a contact number

Well, truth be told, I wouldn't mind going over to something more modern, it's just the circumstances that this town presents. I've been keeping an eye on Verizons expansion of FIOS & done inquiries about if/when it's coming here. So far there are no plans to get anything fast in this little burg in the sticks.

But now they want to get rid of our copper wires with very limited options in this area?

I guess all we can do is hope they skip us by due to the location & if they don't, then heaven only knows how many hoops we'll have to jump through or what we'll end up with, if anything.

Oh, they did put in an optical fiber line a few years ago, but it's not available to the public. It's only govt offices, state agencies & I think maybe the schools that are allowed to use it.

Marie SWE · 2026-09-15T10:49:44-0400

Bree said:
Yeah, I was getting a bit ahead of myself

We're the same date as you, the last Sunday of October. Our friends across the Pond change on the first Sunday in November.

Okay, so i can use you for a reference to keep track on when its time then.

i wish it was tonight as i have to cut my sleep short with 2½ hours tomorrow.. so it will be a day with only around 4 hours sleep.

So that extra hour had been really welcome tonight.

Borg 386 · 2026-09-15T10:57:58-0400

I'm off to make breakfast for my Wife then I have to start prepping her for the trip.

You all take care & have a good safe day

Bree · 2026-09-15T10:58:45-0400

Marie SWE said:
Okay, so i can use you for a reference to keep track on when its time then.
i wish it was tonight as i have to cut my sleep short with 2½ hours tomorrow.. so it will be a day with only around 4 hours sleep. So that extra hour had been really welcome tonight.

Does going to bed an hour earlier work for you? At a pinch, I can usually get an extra hour that way.

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