“It’s workin’ ain’t it!”

Yrs Trly is fiddling photographs for yesterday’s blog.
My pictures are at PhotoBucket®, accessed to BlogSpot via HTML tag.
I go to upload a picture to PhotoBucket, and can’t.
“PhotoBucket bombs yet again: ‘your browser can’t access the address.’”
I quickly discerned none of my browser tabs worked.
To do so I hafta “refresh” each tab, since unrefreshed tabs still display.
I been dreading this. Lost Internet with my new briefcase modem, the way Spectrum® upgraded me from 20 megabytes-per-second to 60.
I set about doing what I used to do with my old modem. Cut power (pull plug), wait 20 seconds, then reinsert power plug. This would force a modem reboot — or so I hoped.
Still no Internet. I’m hard-wired, so go wireless. I also can do wireless.
Still no Internet. “Now what?”
“Call Spectrum,” I instruct Siri on my iPhone.
“I found all these ‘Spectrums.’ Tap the one you want.”
I tap the one on Mt. Hope Ave. in Rochester, my cable Spectrum.
“Welcome to Spectrum. This call will be monitored,” yada-yada.
So began their machines. “No Internet. Right?”
At which point I’m tempted to say “Oh ease up, fer cryin’ out loud.”
The machine would say “I don’t understand.”
I can’t imagine my 73 year old friend dickerin’ this; he’d walk away. (I’m 73 myself.)
My navigation was fairly successful, except one tumble into confused lock-up.
Finally, after maybe 10 minutes, a real person.
“Lemme access your modem,” she said. I guess she disconnected me and then reconnected.
Still no Internet; except wi-fi reappeared (perhaps). But no hard-wired.
Madness, as usual. Maybe wi-fi was back, but I’m not sure.
“Happened before,” I said. “I suspect the plug.” The little plastic thingy that keeps the plug tight had broken off. The plug can go adrift.
Jiggle-jiggle-jiggle. But I have wi-fi Internet, where I didn’t previously — or so I thought.
Suddenly my hard-wire is working.
Just the same I’m inclined to get a new wire.
“So am I gonna hafta call you guys every time this happens? Seems I had no wi-fi until you reconnected me.
Talking to the moon, of course. The techie, a youngster, was convinced my hard-wire connection was suspect.
Whatever! Back in business for the time being = until it tanks again.
If there’s anything I’ve learned drivin’ this ‘pyooter, it’s understanding doesn’t matter.
All that matters are RESULTS; “‘Pyooter-Guru” at the Mighty Mezz would concur.
“It’s workin’ ain’t it!”

• This is a “BlogSpot” blog.
• “HTML” is Hyper-Text Markup Language, a background instruction system made invisible in text by surrounding carets (“<” and “>”). I use it only to embolden, underline and italicize text, although it can do other things. My picture-inserts and links are also via HTML-tag.
• RE: “PhotoBucket bombs yet again.......” —PhotoBucket is somewhat unstable, and may tank once per week.
• The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over 11 years ago. Best job I ever had — I worked there almost 10 years (over 11 if you count my time as a post-stroke unpaid intern). “‘Pyooter-Guru” was the Messenger’s technology (computer) manager.
• I had a stroke October 26th, 1993, from which I pretty much recovered. Just tiny detriments; I can pass for never having had a stroke. My biggest challenge is phonecalls.