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In my dreams a few hours ago...

Somebody sent me a very technologically advanced trifle.  Either Coca-Cola, or the company that builds their vending machines, created it.  Somehow they found out that I liked robots, and I liked party balloons, and I was interested in the Industrial Internet of Things...so I received a robotic device to stick to the ceiling of my room.  Every so often, it would activate, play one of Coca-Cola's many jingles, inflate a balloon with air, tie it off and let it loose.

Why Coca-Cola?  I don't know.

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Sabrina*Online wrapped up this month as an ongoing webcomic. Eric Schwartz promises that more is coming.

This is the penultimate strip.  The final strip isn't exactly family reading.

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I hate when the firmware for my DSL modem overwrites the homepage information on my browser to give me an error message. When that happens, I have to purge the cookies and caches and restart, and then re-log into all my sites, which means remembering my passwords.

And when I get an error message from the modem, it usually doesn't mean anything because the problem it's warning me about has already been solved automatically. Sheesh.
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Paid $110 today to shut off the account for the USB modems.  With seven months left in contract that will save us almost $240.

Can't bundle the plans we have left tho'.  AT&T stopped doing that, for some reason.

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As said, I'm in the process of a switchover from one form of Internet connectivity to another, and that means a lot of bureaucratic finagling with our service provider...plus some financial outlays.

Got my first bill from the new service today.  Tomorrow I'll have to go to the office to link the accounts.  The amount of the bill is over $200 but that included hardware and installation and we're promised a $35/month rate.

Meanwhile, in the past weeks I've had to get tires on Moonshine fixed, a traffic citation paid, and several other unforseen expenses dealt with.  I'm not so much complaining about that, just frustrated that a time of year that I should be carefree about money and I just feel dread and worthlessness.

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Goodbye Sierra Momentum Connect Device.

Hello Motorola NVG510 Wi-Fi DSL Gateway. Rather Manor now is U-Versatile.

Which means that I will be using this computer a lot more and maybe even posting actual posts on this blog more as well.

It took a lot of effort and money to get us here, and I'm very grateful for it, even if it means we have to scale back other plans we'd had this season.
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As typical, on the first day of the new fiscal month I use two day's worth of bandwidth in the first few hours, doing a mix of things I've needed to do for weeks and thing I don't need to do at all.

I need to go with Dad to AT&T to renegotiate our plans.
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March of The Machines.

There was a part that meshed directly with the "firmware" portion of POI's Machine. Law offices, prosecutor and defender divisions are now commonly using analytical computers to research cases and collect evidence in the "discovery" phase. How much you want to bet that The Machine already is looking in on every single one of these systems to tell who's being investigated...and who's doing the investigating? Maybe even to recruit potential future assets?
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It's really tough to keep up with them all. I belong to bunches, but I don't have time to see a number of them. Some I've let go for months at a time because I can't tell if anything is going on.

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