Comcast guy was here all day Friday. The new program at Comcast is your entire wiring system has to be "certified" before they will work on it. Because I built this house 22 years ago, he said my cable was outdated and needed replaced. So we spent the day running all new cable, amp, and splitters in the house. After all that, he did his test on the entire system. It passed, even with the wiring out here in the shop that is OLDER than the stuff in the house was. Then we discovered there is a short in the underground wiring for the phone lines to the shop. I'm thinking the excess ice around the entry point of the wires to the building is the culprit there. I'll fix that if and when Spring ever gets here. Had to buy some new phones for the shop. My 30 year old ones, all hard wired, don't seem to work as good as I thought. Bummer.
Got the new laptop working OK now. It seems to be faster than this one. I'm going to send this one to Florida, so I have one down there. Also decided to send the 4x4 Ford van down there. I don't use it here, so I might as well have a nice ride down there. I'm going to load my spare motorcycle air-lift, a big tool box, jack-stands, floor jack, and a bunch of small stuff in it for the trip. It will be there waiting on me when I fly down in a week or so.
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