Christmas Miracle???

 

For the past 3 days, several times a day, I saw the error come up, that what ever I was doing, had been dropped. Intermittent Loss of Internet. I thought, Spectrum will repair it, we have all new Modem and Router.  

Christmas Eve, we were watching a movie on Netflix and about 30 minutes from the end, Pouf, it was gone.  I found it and it loaded and loaded and loaded. I went out and came back and we watched to the end.

Got up Christmas morning and NO INTERNET, nothing worked, no phone. 

Christmas Eve, intermittent dropping of internet, on/off/on/off. I thought, its Christmas Eve, I can live

with this until Tuesday.

WRONG!

4 AM, Christmas Day! NO INTERNET!  I did the reboot thing, nothing happened!

Thinking I will call Spectrum but it IS Christmas morning, but I will try it.

The help me line at Spectrum is 611 on our home phone. Oy Vey! no home phone. I remembered my What if Self  had entered the number in my contacts and named it Spectrum 611 allowing me to say Call Spectrum and it began to ring. 

The young woman who answered was as nice as Santa Claus. I said Merry Christmas, sorry you are working on Christmas day but my tether to LIFE, INTERNET and phone are GONE…She laughed out loud and said I do know what you mean about that tether to life.  

She directed me through the steps of tests, explained modem and router, which is which, AGAIN. One step was dragging bob from the DVR on the Big Screen, to unscrew/screw back the cable, since my fingers have no strength.

 An hour later, she said, please hold, I will check to see if you can get a repair appointment tomorrow. (don’t be alarmed at the hour long call, we were chatting and laughing and exchanging Christmas stories about gifts we did not want) we both made each others day.

She came back after hold, with, Merry Christmas, there is ONE available appt left for today, between 9 and 10.

 Will that work? Ha ha ha OF COURSE IT WILL. 

The repair man appeared at 10:06 and left at 10:45, and I was tethered back to all of you, my friends. He simply replaced the modem, the brand new, one week old modem, and every thing was fine. 

God bless these people who work on Holidays and Thank you Spectrum... 

"Immanuel" -God is with us

Luke 2:11

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

 

Santa and Rudolf are in Florida on Christmas Eve

Santaville

There once was a painting of Santaville

That hung on the wall of a cozy old mill

But every December, the painting would change

And show different scenes that were funny and strange

Like Santa on a surfboard or Rudolph in a dress

Or elves playing soccer or snowmen playing chess

The painting was magical, no one knew why

But it always brought laughter to those who passed by

a poem & photos by Bing AI and THE MadSnapper of Florida

After setting up my Santaville for the holiday, I decided to see how AI would do . do you have a favorite? Mine is divided. I love the deer above and the Santa below.