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AT&T Senior Nation 200

  My Palm 650 is setup as a pre-paid T-Mobile plan.  I can not do any web stuff with it.  If I had it setup with some sort of plan with data services I could have posted to ShowMeBlog during the move. 
  So that got me thinking about making a change with my cell phone service.  Since I got a Palm 650 I decided to check out AT&T.
  I see they have a Nation Plan for Senior Citzens.  (No data service) and the price is $29.99 a month for 200 minutes and 500 Nights and Weekends.  That would be pretty good for me.
  Of course then I think well what could I add to get data services and  you would not believe the menu of choices they give you.  There is no way I could decide from that list and make the right choice.  I am not sure even they could come up with an idea of a good plan from the list.

  Wow I been looking at their data plans and I am confused. 

  I also own an old Casio E-125 PDA.  It is not a cell phone it is just a PDA device but I have a WiFi card for it.  I had the WiFI card installed and working in the past and I found a few open WiFI spots and used it a time or two to try it out.
  The card is a CF (Compact Flash) card and i need to get it install again as a back up system.  I think I will start adding local (Miami) WiFi spots to Howard's Notebook. 
  I guess nation wide that Panera Bread is a major source of free Wi-Fi service.  There are three Panera Bread locations within 8 miles of me.  One is right across the street from the Dadeland Mall and one is on SW 72nd street and the bus stop for the 72nd street but is right outside my door. 
  I hope I am not going to need an emergency back up for Internet service.

  Oh last night Russ and I were using the Internet and we lost service.  I had knocked the plug for our wireless router out of the wall.  It was not a good fit in the socket.
  That reminds me that I need a UPS unit for my computer.  I am not sure when I can afford one but in FL and in Miami you need a UPS device.

  It is a great looking day here in Miami FL.  I should do something outside but I still need to catch up on all the Internet stuff that I pissed over the last 2 weeks.
  I have four tickets in the FL Lotto tonight.  I got 4 out of 6 numbers the other day now I need to get 6 out of 6.  Smile

AT&T and Q9h

  I am not sure how I can afford the monthly fees for AT&T phone line and Internet that I will soon get.  I worry about the first bill as it will have extra charges and it will be hard to pay BUT I just read at Engadget about the Q9h cell phone device that AT&T came out with yesterday.
 


  They have a "temporary" price of $200.00 for it.  But comments at Engadget say the price maybe higher and comment about other points of the Q9h.  OK OK I admit it I just want to own something with a "Q" in the name.

What is your Real Age?

  I am sure you have heard of the "Real Age" test well I took it on line.  There is a site that has the test.  My real calendar age is 66.7 years.  I did not complete the test but I took it for a long long time and it came up with a real age for me of 68.5 and I feel it is pretty much correct.
  If you want to take the test it is at:  RealAge Test 
  If you know of any sites that do this real age test and are more medical and less interested in selling you something and making a buck send their url and I will list it here.

  Ken cooked on the grill again today.  I been eating very well since we moved here.  My weight is 202 at this time.  I have not taken my BP in a month or two.  I have an appointment with my doctor on the 22nd of this month.  He is not going to be happy that I have not seen the heart doctor.
  
 

   It is nice to have real telephone service.  I still have Skype service but when it is time to renew I may cancel it now that I have a real phone line.  I can hear the phone ring and I do not have to worry about the connection or the cost.

Winner at Florida Lotto

  I had a ticket for the Florida Lotto that I got for October 24 (2007) and with the move and no Internet access I could not check the ticket until today.  I checked the ticket and I won.  OK OK... I did not win the $10 million but I did win $84.50 for getting 4 of 6 numbers correct.
 
  I think this is the first place that I lived were the mail man comes early in the day.  I knew they had to come early to some people but it always seems I was someplace were he came late in the day.  The mail man here comes before 1100 hours each day.
  I just got a video from NetFlix called "Romance" and it is the director's cut.  I am not sure if I will like it or not...  "...she's sexually frustrated...unbridled sex odyssey..lust and degradation..."  Sounds like my life.. Smile
  I will let you know what I think of the video.

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On Line at last using AT&T ?

  I got Internet service from AT&T.  It is not cable modem service and it is NOT DSL service.  It is something new for me.  I guess we have fiber optic lines here and this service is like a LAN system running through the phone lines in the house.  We got a couple of boxes that plug into a wall outlet and a phone line runs into them. 
  I do not understand the system.  It does not give us the super fast speed that Comcast offers.  In fact the speed I am getting is about 1.5 Mbps down.  In fact right now I am getting 926 kb/s down and 178 kb/s up.  Russell hooked up the wireless router and I think he is download some big file that takes two hours to download so I should get better speed that these numbers.
  When I find out more about this service I will post some information about it here or on Howard's Notebook.

 

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Life without the Internet

  I should have been without the Internet for a day or two.  We moved from the South Dadeland (Miami FL) area to West Dadeland.  I had called Comcast cable and they checked the new address and they said they could install their high speed (8 Mbps) service.
  I could make it a day or two without the Internet.  There would be a day or two with no post to ShowMeBlog and I would not get to check my email but I could make it OK.
  So the install date for Comcast cable was October 19th (2007).  I had a bad feeling for some reason.  The contract employee for Comcast showed up and he did not speak one word of English.  This was not a good sign.  It took him 7 hours to get cable TV working.  Sure TV would be nice..but the Internet was what I wanted and he could not get it working.  His supervisor called me on the telephone and told me that there was a bad line and he would make sure someone came out the next day and fixed the line.