Still my favorite south park episode.

That is interesting, I haven't seen anything about that yet.

By the way, CenturyLink/Lumen sold off their assets to a private equity company (Apollo), who created Brightspeed as company to run it. I would not be surprised to see things like this as private equity tries to squeeze out all the profits they can.

Yeah, the router they give you should be great for your use case as it allows for you to setup separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 ghz.

Many modern routers don't let you separate them, and it causes a lot of headache for certain smart home products. I'm assuming that's what you've ran into.

He's joking around and talking about how hot it was. That tournament is in late July and typically pretty torturous. Surprised at how many people are so offended.

FYI still on the school board, just no longer Vice President.

Just missing Elotes don Tono

Yeah, there are a ton of options for authentic street tacos in Springfield now, but this is one of the best.

I like to bring them to the bar if there is space where someone isn't sitting, but I do that to be nice. I think you are fine to leave them.

I've never had an outage or issues, so I haven't even had to reach out to support. I did feel like at first I was pushing the 700-800mbps speeds, now its closer to 500. This is wired devices, I know that wireless you'll see some degradation.

It is a shared service and the higher plan is "up to 1g" not guaranteed. Fiber is always preferred, and its vastly better than Mediacom coax that I had before. Better price, more bandwidth, and much lower latency.

Here is the statement from Patrick Nett to the Welcome to Springfield MO Facebook group. Sounds to me like it got blown out of proportion and was a simple mistake. *edit: Linked above but for those without Facebook.

> Hi everyone, > Patrick, owner of Thai Express here, the guy that’s been on the KY3 news recently. I’m here to share with you my side of the story. Warning, I am going to post every little detail I can remember or think of, so this is going to be quite a long post. By the time I finish writing it, it will probably be airing on KY3 (10pm tonight). The reason I am posting this is because I’m not particularly satisfied with how KY3 is building up the story. While I admit fault, I feel like the previews are making some people think of it a lot worse than I believe it to really be. I was contacted and interviewed by Ashley Reynolds, and she was nothing but nice and friendly to me when I arrived. I had full faith that the full story would be released as truthfully and as unbiased as possible. I still hope that will remain true, but I am posting here today, right now, just in case it isn’t.

> On May 16, 2022 I helped promote a fundraising campaign as well as promised a 5% sales donation for financial assistance in support of the death of Mackenzie Huynh. Please keep in mind, I did not create the gofundme campaign. I shared the link, but also allowed customers to donate at our store if they wished to avoid fees. For that week, we collected $39 in cash donations, $0 in credit card donations, and 5% of our weekly sales for that week equates to exactly $1,810.51. This brings us to a grand total of $1,849.51. I pledge that those funds will be sent to wherever Tim and Nancy’s attorney instructs.

> Now, let's get to the full story. > This is where I take and accept full responsibility, because I did not take priority into reaching out to the family about these funds. It sounds really bad, and I’m not denying that it sounds bad at all, but it is the god's honest truth. I kept forgetting and kept procrastinating as I was dealing with a lot at the business around this time. The restaurant had a lot of struggles around this time that nearly put us out of business, all while I was having to physically work at the restaurant all day 7 days a week. I was served a legal document via certified mail after a couple of months, even though it only felt like a couple of days with how busy I was. I immediately made several attempts to contact their attorney, and we kept playing phone tag with voicemails left for each other. After not hearing back from their attorney, I thought the case was dropped. In my final attempt to contact their attorney, I left my email address to the office assistant, stating that reaching me that way is going to be the best way, and that we could set up a time to meet through that. I believe I sent the exact same message to his direct line via voicemail as well. In my thoughts, I would just put this aside and continue working on my business, and I would get back to it once they make another attempt to reach out to me, hopefully setting a date to meet by email. It was just completely forgotten about ever since, until just recently when KY3 reached out to me. I was hit by surprise, but I opted to accept the interview so I could share my story. >
I have their donations and I am willing to do whatever the family is asking me to do with it. I am just waiting for a green light from their attorney. And yes, I have finally been able to contact their attorney. I went straight to their office the day KY3 reached out which helped me get a response. Right before the interview, I had a phone call with their attorney and he told me to go ahead and share my story with KY3 and then wait until the story airs. Afterwards, he will be in touch and let me know how the family wants to proceed with the money. If I don’t hear from him by Wednesday, I’ll reach out.

> I had no bad intentions, and I accept full responsibility for my lack of communication. In simple words, it was an honest mistake. I procrastinated and I will make it right by the family, should they allow me. A lesson was learned, and I will never make the same mistake again. I can only ask for forgiveness, and promise that I will continue to only do good by my friends, family, customers, and this loving community of Springfield that I have been so proud to be a part of. Although I may be receiving some negative responses from this, it will not prevent me from continuing to do what I do best. I will just be more careful going forward and making sure that I am not overloading myself with work. One of the biggest points I wanted to make was that none of this was a publicity stunt. The one thing KY3 is displaying that I strongly disagree with, is that I used their family name for personal gain. That is not true in the slightest. > My heart goes out to Tim and Nancy and I am here should they want my help for anything. I am truly sorry for this. I am always trying to contribute to the community when people are in need. It’s unfortunate that this time around I have let Tim and Nancy down. I made a mistake and I will make it right. I am truly sorry for their loss, something that I cannot personally fathom. I promise to everyone that there was only good intentions behind all of this and please know that my heart was in the right place.

> I will answer questions in the comments, but I will avoid anyone that’s rude. I have nothing to hide, but I just don’t feel like “getting into it” with anyone being hostile. > Thank you for hearing me out

I did that and it worked fine, just make sure your router is setup in access point mode, otherwise they will both be trying to hand out IPs.

My TP Link Deco Mesh system actually has the ability to set the VLAN required for IPOE athentication, but I noticed slower speeds.

I think Farmers Gastropub shows them, a few people were watching at Great Escape saturday.

They typically send out with a chart at the top that shows how much you would owe at various dates.

Yes, love Little Tokyo, they are all so nice. I used to live and work closer to there, now I rarely go but they still remember both my food and drink order. Can't say enough great things about this place.

Sadly no matter how moderate you are, most people down here won't vote for anyone with D next to their name. You also aren't very likely to do any good in R primary unless your ready to use a flamethrower/50 cal/tank/cannon to blow up CRT in your campaign commercials. We need a common sense alternative but its a pretty hopeless effort at the moment.

I love the bone-in. Especially sauced in the standard sweet and spicy korean sauce. They do seem to cut the breast and thigh down smaller so maybe its just not what your used to and not knowing how to navigate it.

Personally, I can't recommend Elevate. I'm sure we just got assigned a bad apple, but we had a meeting where we went over everything, including special request and he pretty much dropped the ball on all of it.

You're better off meeting with and selecting a DJ that fits your needs, Elevate promises everything, then assigns a random person and you have to hope they fit.