So we've had ATT UVerse for years, and have been mostly happy with it, until last year when our TV pictures kept pixilating (Ha -- know that word!). After several visits, the tech realized our Gateway, which I think used to be called a router, was "antique" and needed replacing. He did so, and Wifey and I have happily used our computers, TV, and Sonos happily. Ah -- when things work and I mostly know how to use them.
The tech told me that our equanimity would be short-lived. Our hood was getting "Fiber" which would greatly upgrade performance, probably cost less, but require a replacement of our 5 boxes near the 5 TVs Wifey has. I personally think we could make do with 3, but I get outvoted on certain issues -- like TV.
Well yesterday the day of reckoning arrived. I answered the gate bell, seeing a young man in a blue uniform, thinking he was a FedEx guy, but it was Abraham, the ATT guy, telling me Fiber was here and we HAD to switch, since our copper or whatever it was would soon be vestigial. My word -- not his.
I invited him in to see our Gateway, and noticed he had a full set of hot pink, long nails, and 2 earrings. I guess ATT has modernized. I kept thinking that neither Wifey nor the Ds ever had such beautiful manicures. Abraham was charming - told me he was originally an Angelino who had lived most of his life in the Bay Area but came to Miami a year ago. He liked it so far, but was still adjusting to the humidity. I told him I was, too, and I've been here 46 years.
Anyway, he told me that with Fiber, our speed would be 500 something or other, whereas it is now 20 something or other. I really don't know tech. He said the installer could come Wednesday am and it would take 4-5 hours.
I have a deep seated sense of dread that this will leave us without TVs, internet, and/or Sonos. I hope I'm wrong.
As a young fella, I'd have taken this in stride -- eventually someone could fix any problems. But I am SO set in my ways, and my house, and my desktops, and my Sonos -- why can't I be left to be??? Why all this progress?
It's like our local road construction. A major route for us has always been 136th Street. They decided a bridge over a canal, maybe 200 feet long, needed replacement. It's been over 2 years! Mike and I think the Golden Gate Bridge took less time. No one seems to know why -- do we have snail darters, or some kind of endangered wildlife they have to work around? I know that DID have one Florida soft shelled turtle I plopped into the canal after Mike had captured and gifted it to me years ago. They're actually native...
Just an annoyance, of course, but since the Biden Administration we've had to detour to 124 or 144 street to go West. Hopefully our tech job isn't as much of a cluster.
I am a curmudgeon. I just asked Wifey if she was hosting mah jong tonight, and she said she was, and that Lisa one of the players and a 50 something spinster-type woman was "bringing her boyfriend." Wait -- what? I have to host some dude I don't know for hours?
Wifey dismissed me -- "you can just go into the library!" No, I reminded her, I cannot -- if I know some fellow is in my house, awaiting the hours long game of his lady friend, I feel compelled to NOT be rude and hang with him. Wifey said no -- he wants to sit with the players to be close to Lisa -- they have, apparently, later plans.
Ok -- that's even weirder! Again -- something in my younger days that wouldn't bear mention -- now -- it's a major hoching of my chinik, to use the misspelled Yiddish expression of being bothered.
Well -- I'll be up early tomorrow for the ATT dude. We just watched a poor movie, "Bad Shabbos," featuring Lilly the strangely attractive spokesperson. Maybe there's a message there.
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