Cable TV

 So doesn't everyone have cable tv? Turns out no -- few of us do. Most have only streaming...

So Jessie came early today from ATT -- to explain everything going on. She was lovely -- Latina with a son who plays football at Columbus High, and a girl in grade school. She went over some things, and then Brian, the tech actually doing the work arrived. He said that, if we wanted, we could keep our "Cable TV" for now -- but it would be fed by the new, faster fiber line he was installing.

Turns out ATT is gradually ditching Uverse, on account of it's too expensive and no one except old people who can afford it still want it. Brian said we may have a year left, but if we're happy for now, might as well just put in the new outside cable and leave everything the way it is. That made me happy.

Eventually, we'll get a new router and extenders on account of the house size, and switch like most everyone else. At Joelle and Kenny's in Maine, they have only streaming, and I was unable to watch anything on the guest room TV. I was too embarrassed to ask, and it was only one night, but I really like to just turn on a TV, see stuff, and change channels and volume. Nada mas.

My days of doing that are numbered, it seems. But, Jessie showed us we could finally change our WiFi password, from the comically long and difficult one that is on our router. Used to be ATT wouldn't let you change it, since their customer service folks were spending hours telling users their forgotten passwords -- so they froze them. I guess the troublesome oldsters died off, and people can now be trusted to remember.

We picked an old tried and true password, one that hearkens back 22 years when D1 was a teenager and we were just starting with these computer machines -- using AOL. Ha. I still have it -- even though just as a backup to gmail...Probably they'll get rid of those sooner than later as well.

On the other side of my abilities -- I needed to transfer some funds today from my brokerage account, and thought it would require a trip to the local Merrill office. It did not -- I was able to do it online myself. I was SO proud -- we'll see tomorrow if it works.

I was telling D1 that the Falls Merrill office is one where, in the 80s, a disgruntled investor who lost a lot in the market responded by showing up there and killing his broker and assistant, and then himself. D1 asked why I ever recalled that. It's because when you go to the Falls Merrill, they have thick glass now and tight security. 

If you live long enough, you see it all.

Meanwhile, Brian toils outside, laying the new fiber line, or whatever it's called. When he's done, he's installing a new box on the outside wall, will drill into the house, and then connect to our existing gateway. When the time comes, he says, installing the new fiber gateway will be easy. Ha. We'll see.

Aging. Everything is so much more daunting. But as long as we stay vertical...