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Last weekend, I made my attempt to navigate Verizon's website to get us switched to Fios. I found myself too confused by it to manage. I thought my sister might have better luck, and this week she was coming over anyway to help my mother with various things. When I got home from work, the two of us sat down together to deal with it, and I started getting alarmed when she was struggling to figure out what to do either. It seemed we were missing where in the whole process we were supposed to define exactly what we were trying to get, with the TV channels as well as the phone and internet. Until we managed to get in touch with a representative, and learned that actually, we can't get the TV channels from them. When they wired our area for Fios last year, they didn't put in the stuff needed for that. It seems they figured people wouldn't want them anyway.
And they're not wrong either, not really. Mom and I rarely watch TV anymore anyway; I've basically only been turning it on for the tennis slams, while she might still like to have the PBS channels handy. But I've been watching tennis less and less, and she's mostly switched to watching even PBS online. We're taking a week to think about it, but probably we're going to give up the cable to do the switch. Maybe get a digital antenna to keep getting PBS, or even sign up for YouTube TV. There are plenty of options.

I am currently in the process of making my first Daggerheart character. My D&D group this week is going to be missing a player whose character is kind of vital to the exact events we've reached, so we decided to do a Witherwild one-shot. I've come up with a faun renewal druid with all her stats and equipment and even a pair of experiences, but haven't tried to deal with any of the backstory questions yet. I think she's actually terminally ill, but I don't know if that'll end up mattering any.
I'm also nearing the end of the first act of my Gale orgin run. It's been fun, poking my head into all the corners and quests that I didn't do the first time around. Today I successfully obtained the Blood of Lathander for the first time, and I'm currently planning to end the act by going back to the Grymforge, actually finding and using the forge this time before also using the elevator for the first time as well Other firsts have included using the tadpoles and using mods. So far only Astarion's taken the former, and wow, but those things really do make you powerful. For the latter, I've currently got a cute mod that lets Gale take Tara around with him. I chose it randomly from multiple such mods, and it turned out to be a little silly with the spells, but she came in handy today against the Githyanki. The final thing to take out Kith'rak Therezzyn was her Magic Moussle, and her turning Gale into a cat so she could dimension catflap him was kind of priceless.
Watched plenty of the US Open too. Have been very glad to see Naomi Osaka making a run, even if she had to continue it at Coco's expense today.

Today the U.S. Open started, and it looks like I will be watching what I watch of it entirely on ESPN+, because my cable box is broken. I am supposed to switch our household to Fios at some point in the near future; my mother and my sister seem to have decided that was my job this time. I am still struggling to figure out how you do things like that. I found articles explaining it today, but some of them contradicted each other. The excessive amount of AI content getting in the way didn't help. My sister actually did it years ago, and I may end up asking for instructions from her. She seems to think I can do this because I put a PC together, but perhaps she should've remembered the multiple times I had to email one of her friends for help while doing so. Though who knows if the process is the same.
Her father in law finally died recently. I say "finally" because not only did everyone know it was coming for literally years, but because it was over half a year since his doctors started saying he had weeks at most. Still, I get the impression my brother-in-law is not coping well, and that he was never going to.