Getting New Internet

The media really has turned against Donald Trump now in this sense that they are no longer portraying the campaign as a horse race but rather are heralding Trump’s persistent lagging Hillary by twelve points- and falling, and are claiming that the Trump campaign itself is giving up and that Trump seems “Tired” and emotionally spent with no energy.  This is quite a victory if we actually pulled that off because now people won’t vote for him.  In like manner, Donald Trump’s insistence that the election is rigged is actually a self defeating move.  Because he’s only convincing his own supporters not to vote for him.  The democrats don’t listen to anything Trump says anyhow so they will continue to vote for him.  Hillary is sprinting to the finish line because there are no more televised debates to prepare for.  But Trump’s supporters are just digging their own grave.  They are not only hurting the man at the top of the ticket but are also putting in jeopardy all of the down ballot races, and if Trump continues to slide at the rate he has the past few weeks, even the House of Representatives is up for grabs. 

AT&T wants to merge with Time-Warner, or rather to buy them out.  To me this is a bad idea and should be opposed stridently by the courts because it will cut down on competetion in an already shrinking communacations field, and in the end, service will suffer, too.

The Chicago Cubs won game six despite the Dodgers’ ace pitcher in the game.  They shut the Dodgers out five to nothing.  This is the first time the Cubs will have gone to the World Series since 1945, which is 71 years.  I don’t know how to react.  I typed that Saturday.  The Federation's official position is that they were anticipating a repeat of the Dodgers 1988 season because both entities are now controled by Taccomans.  Bones understandably is against the Dodgers particularly the Dodgers in 1988 for reasons we have gone into in the past.  Norman Goldman was never a Dodgers fan because he was born in 1959 two years after the Dodgers left Brooklyn.  Goldman went his wife in Cleveland in 1990 and has been a Cleveland teams fan ever since, but he also has best wishes for the Chicago Cubs breaking their billy goat curse.  

This is Monday October 24, 2016 and it’s new internet day.  Let’s take it from the top.  This morning I woke up at 5:05 and was restless and got up at five thirty.  The rain was still with us and it was joined by very bright lightning in the pre dawn sky.  I was talking with James as I fish through the ash tray for butts.  I went for medication from Ida and like yesterday met Ron at the foot of the stairs and borrowed rollie number five.  I asked Glenda for coffee because Chris and her were talking about it and she said ‘after breakfast”.  I had first KNXT and then the “Today” show on.  We had Cheerios this morning.  Service was otherwise very slow, as we have had perhaps a majority of “very slow” days lately and I’m going to bring it up at the resident’s council meeting again.  Finally we got our scrambled eggs and toast with butter but no jelly.  The coffee was served in one of their small clear plastic cups because apparently they ran out of the normal ones.  (Not that those would be filled up all the way)  Now I was able to get coffee from Glenda in her room and I went in while she was in the bathroom and got a spoon full.  Breakfast was not served till about eight after eight and this ties a lot of lateness records.  I had to dash up from the table for a phone call from AT&T.  Judy had given them the number here and it’s a good thing she did.  I tried to clear away some stuff.  I had the “Today” show on till about nine.

The guy arrived a few minutes after nine.  He presented me with a great big modem that handles a lot of other tasks such as WY FI and other things he pointed out.  There are a lot of headings on the front that don’t now have lights showing.  The guy wanted to be sure I gave him a good report when AT&T called.  Apparently my phone lifeline is not in jeopardy, because this is entirely separate.  He “ran” one program that looked like a DOS screen but it had a different heading.  He checked out You Tube.  I knew there would be no buffering problems there because in nine years of having DSL I don’t think I have one time had a buffering problem with You Tube.  I’m getting six megabytes he informs me.  I wanted to test out Hardball, which had been a problem.  There didn’t seem to be any problems there.  But I kept getting bounced to some registration form site I was expected to till out.  The guy took over and did some stuff.  He said I might have problems for the next couple of hours because he was still working on the outside line but I didn’t have any problems.  I watched that silly Black Keys kiddy video.  I had radio favorites from I Heart Radio.  After this I made a phone call to Judy to inform her everything went well.  Later I got a call from AT&T concerning the October 22^nd conversation with that very patient sales lady considering how many bone-head thing I said and did that day.

Rico had snacks in the front room.  I had Thom Hartman on briefly.  They are continuing to have dinner for lunch and lunch for dinner.  That makes being full later in the evening a real problem.  We had cut up pieces of lemon pepper chicken but the pasta had no sauce and was over-cooked as well as stone cold.  We had carrots and orange slices for dessert.  On the Gary and Shannon show they covered Proposition 59 which apparently is the one about overturning Citizen’s United.  There was one proposition in 1892 about direct electors of California Senators, which passed as well as two other such propositions.  I watched Days of our Lives and Andre did a successful performance of playing the “Judas” of the family in that little ruse they used to capture Clyde Weston in an episode I partially missed.  I went out for afternoon snacks and they had iced tea and graham crackers, nice and fresh.  So many of their crackers are stale.  Bill is out of the room.  I will close with a question for the readers.  What radio program on the internet was I preparing to catch when the internet went out last Thursday?  Those of you who know my habits should be able to figure this out.  I was listening to the top of the hour station break.