Another Christmas Eve Arrival
I n addition to Sheila's doorstep colony of frogs arriving late, we had a new mantle clock arrive on Christmas Eve. So, this was sort of a late Christmas gift to both of us from ourselves. Most people simply use their cable set top box to display the time near the television. Unfortunately, when Comcast installed their high end, high speed Xfinity set top box at our house, the first thing the technician pointed out was that this box has no display on it at all so there is no clock. Actually, it is not even a "box"... it is a big, monstrous tower that just barely fits in our shelves next to the fireplace and under the television. I figured, "No problem... our router can display the time" and that is what we used for a short while. Our high speed router has a big colorful display on it which makes using the router abundantly easy. It didn't take long before we noticed that the router was beginning to work intermittently. I pinpointed the problem t