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- <p>Day 00192: Tuesday, 2015 September 15</p>
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- I was looking through my music today to decide what to put on, and I found that I only had one version of <a href="http://www.joshwoodward.com/song/GoldenSunrise">Golden Sunrise</a>.
- The main version was still in my collection, but I had managed to delete the alternate version that you get for signing up for Josh Woodward's <a href="http://www.joshwoodward.com/mod/massmail/signuplist.php">mailing list</a>.
- My guess is that I deleted it when I bought his $40 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> music pack.
- I've re-added myself to the mailing list (with the same address as before), then re-downloaded the song.
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- The Charter cable guy came over to install our new equipment from them.
- He actually arrived within about ten minutes of the start of our appointment window, so I didn't have to wait long.
- My mother was at work, so I showed him where we wanted our new equipment.
- He kept cutting cables that did not need to be cut because they could have just been screwed off.
- Then, he would strip the ends and add a new screw-on attachment piece so he could connect new pieces that replaced the ones he could have just screwed off.
- He used a wrench to tighten them, so he did have a wrench on hand.
- He wasn't cutting the wires because he didn't have the tools needed to remove pieces the right way! He also mentioned the way satellite dish-based service providers do things.
- When they come to set up your service, they don't care if you already have one of your dishes on your roof; they'll install a new one either way.
- They also don't take the dishes down when you leave because it's gratis advertisement.
- The house we are renting has three on the roof; the one across the street has four.
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- When he was setting up the modem, we couldn't find any cable outlets along the wall in the room where my mother wanted the modem to be.
- The cable guy ended up installing a splitter in the room across the hall, then running a long cable along the wall to the corner of the room closest to the room we wanted it in.
- The theory was that once the wireless router was installed there, it would give signal closest to where we wanted it, and we could install a wireless card to the computer that would have had a direct connection if the room had been wired for cable.
- When my mother got home, she was not happy.
- It turns out that there had been a cable outlet in that room, it had just been set in the floor instead of in the wall where it should have been and where we looked for it.
- I tried moving the modem to the proper cable outlet, but it fails to function there.
- The automated chat robot said we could move it anywhere that we had a cable outlet, that it wasn't bound to a single place.
- I spoke with a Charter representative online, and she said that the cable company only activated the modem to work on a single outlet.
- We can't move it.
- I asked the representative what we needed to do to get the other outlet activated.
- SHe said we would need to pay a $50 <abbr title="United States Dollars">USD</abbr> fee and have another cable guy come over and set it up.
- I offered to pay for the mistake myself, but my mother was not happy about this solution, and we are now working around the problem as it is.
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- I tried to set up the machine that used to be my server, but it seems I had not brought my jar of miscellaneous small computer parts as I thought I had.
- In that jar is a critical piece: an adapter that allows the monitor to speak with the machine.
- The jar must still be at my former residence, so I will have to set this up later.
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- I tried to find a gratis Web host that I could just put up a single-page <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure">HTTPS</abbr> website at until I get back to an areas and <abbr title="Internet service provider">ISP</abbr> that will allow me to run my own Web server again, but I had no such luck today.
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- I found a website called Wix, but they don't seem to allow you to code your paged yourself, so you have to use their painful graphical editor.
- If I get desperate, I may end up using Wix.
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