Lightning got my Roku.
No, I’m not happy about it. But, hey, stuff happens, right?
If that’s the worst thing that’s happened to me in the past month, I’m doing pretty good.
Oh, I almost forgot. This is a shameless plug to the blog post I wrote about losing the Roku. I wrote it over at my little blog. Go read it. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you.
You are the boss, though. Well, at least for this post. You get to pick what we talk about. It’s Monday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
You kids with your high technology Roku’s listening to the Becks and the No Doubts playing the Donky Kongs down at the mall. You have your fun but don’t forget to get out and play!
Little Rocket Boy pigging out at Panda Express now!
George H. W. Bush, our forty-first President, is ninety-four years old today. He has lived longer than any other President (he was born 109 days after Jimmy Carter), and I’ll bet that he misses Barbara. I certainly do. The two of them displayed the sort of class that we haven’t seen very often in the White House since they left.
When did Jimmy Carter die? Or am I misreading that.
It was a typo, he meant “before”.
Also, the answer to “When did Jimmy Carter die?” will always be “not soon enough”.
Although currently, I will also accept “unfortunately, not yet”.
We can’t kill Jimmah cause the rabbit dun died.
Thank you, Harvey. I did, in fact, mean “before”.
To paraphrase John Kerry, “You were for before before you used after.”
But your modem is OK, Basil? How about your trees in the yard? Two years ago, we lost a cordless phone system (might have been the base only), the modem, and the ethernet port on a computer due to lightning. The next winter when it snowed, I look up and saw that the big pine tree next to the heat pump was dead. It and an oak were touching; the oak was probably ok, but we had a tree service get rid of both of them, which wasn’t cheap, but the homeowner’s insurance contributed, probably because they were so close to the house. That computer is on a USB to ethernet converter now.
Oh, everything else seems to be just fine. No issues anywhere else.
Comcast did come by a few days later after getting a report of noise on lines in the area, but the tech checked mine and said nothing was wrong. I wasn’t the source. He went on to the next house. I suppose that means others in the neighborhood were impacted in some way by the lightning, too.
Ahhh good. So the taps were installed according to plan.