Tallahassee Area Mensa
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Tallahassee Area Mensa a local chapter of the High IQ Society, American Mensa. The Tallahassee
area serves Florida from the Apalachicola River east through Taylor County including part of
Madison County and even a bit of Dixie County. Our area is also the only area in all of Florida,
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Robin's Roost - rest your feathers!
Welcome to November! October brought some unexpected challenges. Our internet went down the first weekend of October. It was a very rainy weekend, and I attributed it to the wet weather, but the problem was it didn't come back! When I went out to check my lines, I found the line going into the house was very badly damaged with the insulation gone entirely and some of the wires were exposed! I plugged a phone into the test jack and there was so much noise on the line it made sense I could not get internet! I tried to reach CenturyLink, but kept being shifted into their self-test program, which kept insisting my service was fine and there was no problem with my line - but I wasn't getting the speed I should be getting and did I want to upgrade my service? Good grief…. This continued through the first week of October, but by then the hurricane was starting to impact us, and when I tried again to reach CenturyLink I was told there was an outage from the hurricane with no estimation of repair date. I finally reached a technician the second weekend of October. He had me go through a bunch of things to try to determine what the problem was - even though I had told him I could SEE the damaged wire - and then he disconnected the chat and I had to start all over with another technician. Finally, two hours after this ordeal began, the second technician conceded there was a problem that would require a repair visit and the first available slot wasn't until October 20! I pointed out this would mean I had been without service for three weeks. That got me an obligatory too-bad-so-sad apology but changed nothing.
So for three weeks all of our smart devices were dumb, I could not print, email was nearly impossible, phone calls were impossible to hear, I could not pay my bills or research my insurance options or anything else. Poor Ray had to rediscover the joys of DVDs for entertainment as there was no streaming to be had. I tried to use the TravelFi system we use when we travel, but there simply isn't enough cell signal out here to give us a good signal on that device. I expect as these housing developments that are going up all around us get finished additional cell towers will be added, but for now we are in a serious dead zone.
The sinus infection I've been dealing with since June has not resolved, and my right Eustachian tube has been closed since the middle of August. Multiple rounds of antibiotics and decongestants have not helped, so my ENT put me on a round of heavy-duty steroids. If I get a vote, I NEVER want to be on that high a dose again!! I was waking up every night between 3 and 4 with busy brain syndrome and could NOT get back to sleep. I spent 2 hours one morning cleaning my car, spent hours planning a new way to winterize the back porch, made up a variety of new recipes, and basically solved all of the world's problems in the wee hours when I wanted to be sleeping. I was exhausted and walking around in a daze, I was having auditory hallucinations, my energy level was simultaneously through the roof and zombie-exhausted. After 2 weeks of this I finally finished the infernal things, but my ear was still not open! I see the ENT tomorrow and I'm going to insist he do SOMETHING to get that canal open again.
On the upside - the repairman replaced the damaged phone line and also found a secondary problem at their main box, so we have internet again. I LOVE the weather this time of year!!! Get outside and enjoy it! The physical therapy has helped my ankle and the pain is now focused where I believe the cyst is. I have picked up the CD of images from the MRI so the doctor at Shands can poke and prod and isolate specifically where the focal point of pain is so we can decide how best to address it. My insurance plan has been discontinued next year, so I had the chance to completely revise my plan with the help of an agent who knows what he is doing. That pleases me!
Ray and I enjoyed the Lewis Spring House tour arranged by the Senior Center. I love that place and it was a great tour. If you haven't checked out the senior center yet, it is worth going to. They have a LOT of excellent activities and classes and I am already signed up for several of them.
Hope to see you at dinner this month or at The Grove!
Robin
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