Saturday Night's Alright For Preppin'
Sometimes the best part of prepping for a trip is the unexpected. I meant to visit B&N across the county in the morning hours, but both Amazon and T-Link conspired against me. It all started on Friday night. My FireTV 4k stick bit the dust just after dinner, and The Porch Gods delivered a 4k Max model this morning to replace it. Hooking it up to the 55" Samsung TV was a cinch, but then my router got sassy with me. The stick wouldn't connect to my network, and I installed a firmware update on the router as part of its troubleshooting. Then the network couldn't be found by any of my devices. To make a long story short, I did a system restore and reinstalled my WiFi network to resolve the issue. Ara ara! I made it to B&N just after two o'clock and wrote half of a chapter while sipping a chai latte in the Starbucks Cafe. 500 words in roughly 30 minutes is a brisk pace for me, so I was quite pleased with myself. While I was there I picked up another "classic...