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By Mark Zeiger, October 16, 2019

This has been a tough week for us, particularly as it relates to this blog!

On October 4th, I tried to open a hot spot on my phone, as I do whenever I want to go online. I got a message that basically said that if I wanted to do that, I needed to sign up for a plan that allowed it. Never mind that the only plan I’ve ever had on this phone allows exactly that!

A call to our provider, AT&T, revealed that this is a glitch they were trying to overcome. I got instructions on resetting my network settings, which should clear it up.

This was the old “new” termination dust. The snow’s down to the beach on The Mountain With No Name now (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).

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By Mark Zeiger, August 6, 2019

Our Patreon page, where our patrons go to download A Place at the Table and more (screenshot).

There’s new material from the homestead available to Patreon patrons!

We skipped July, because we just couldn’t upload anything to the page that month. Now, with the help of the tweaks I made to our booster antenna (see Incremental Improvements) we’re doing better, so we rushed uploads for August while we could.

This month’s edition of A Place at the Table, available to Super Homestead Patrons, discusses the possibility of moving to Ireland. Michelle and I discuss an open letter from the people of Arranmore Island, County Donegal, Ireland, seeking immigrants.

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