A day late & a dollar short

 This post was supposed to be made on Wednesday but Systemic internet interruptions prevented that.

Just before my internet woes I bravely upgraded to Linux Mint 20.3 and quickly started having issues with my Firefox browser. Thinking it must be a problem from my browser extensions I went to work fixing the problem even going as far as employing my cousin and fellow Linux user's help to no avail. As it turned out, the issue wasn't Linux or Firefox. It was a problem in the Mozilla web servers themselves. According to a news release someone at Mozilla activated an http3 protocol that shouldn't have been activated. Yes, that means a web3 portal is getting ready to open up. 

If you find are suddenly having issues reaching some websites from Firefox that you could get to before you can find a temporary work around here

In other life news:

I was supposed to have a sleep study done on Saturday but it never happened. This is an appointment I have had to reschedule four times for various reasons and now a fifth time

First scheduling canceled by the sleep clinic over a staffing issue but they failed to inform me till after my transportation service dropped me off and left. Being done at night it left me 11.4 miles from home with no ride and too late to get one. On demand ride service late at night is basically non existent for power chair drivers. I wound up driving my power chair all the way home after 21:30 hrs (11:30 pm).

Second scheduling: The medical transportation service never showed up.

Third Scheduling: I was on qaranteen with a Covid-19 infection.

Fourth Scheduling: The medical transportation once again did not show up.

Next attempt is on February 7th

I got a set of automotive horns for my power chair to install before we in the ALF get off lockdown. Yes we are still on lockdown (since March 15th 2020). If we ever do get off lockdown and I'm able to go places other than just medical appointments, which is difficult enough as you read above, the horns will make it safer for me to be around traffic. Many chair drivers get run over while crossing the street. I've lost three friends so far from this issue. All of them were cut off or hit by a car or truck driver that was trying to turn right on a red light.

I am still working on getting my movie collection back in order after the failure of an 8 terabyte Hard Disk Drive. I lost 4,0186 movies in total. My collection is back up to 504 movies now but I am weeding out the lesser appealing content so don't quite need an 8 TB HDD so I got a 6 TB instead. You can see a list of my movie collection here

That's it for now. Take care, be safe and I'll see you next Wednesday.