About

I’m a sixty-five-year-old gay man. I’ve been single for a number of years after the end of a twenty-year relationship. I retired in October 2022 after a 45-year career in the telecommunications industry. I’m trying to figure out what life will be like after retiring. I have a passion for art and can often be found at gallery openings. I’ve been HIV positive since I was 27.

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on January 31, 2009 at 1:22 pm ggw_bach

nice blog. Just added you to the blogroll. I’m a corporate slave too. But happily (or unhappily, depending on perspective) I’m still employed. Good luck on your own journey. Its fun being outside the loop (at least for a while).

ggw
on January 1, 2015 at 7:46 pm larrymuffin

Just want to let you know that I am now on WordPress and you can see my new
site at: larrymuffinathome.wordpress.com
on January 3, 2015 at 4:59 pm larrymuffin

Hello I wonder if I can be so bold to ask you for a small favour. You have a lot of art gallery experience and I would appreciate your opinions on a poll I am doing for my own information. I work as a volunteer at the National gallery of Canada and do small mini lectures on selected art works. I am trying to understand what the public is looking for, not always easy. You know my new blog larrymuffinathome.wordpress.com
If you have time could you have a look and leave a comment, I am looking for honest comments about what it is people want. The entry of 3 Jan Your opinion is requested. Thank you for your help.
on February 15, 2015 at 8:55 pm larrymuffin

I do not know how to contact you otherwise. But I wanted to ask you your name.
Is that ok? rjjs8878 sounds somewhat mysterious.

Laurent
on February 18, 2015 at 11:21 am Tom

I found your blog from a comment you made on “Retired in Delaware”. I will follow you. Thanks for posting the blog. I like it.
on January 19, 2016 at 9:04 am Bill Reynolds

Your comments are great and there are so few sites out there that are willing to allow those of us with little $$ to present our cases for people to read. My husband’s and my CenturyLink issue is coming close to the straw that breakes the camels back in our relationship.
We noticed on the weekend of Jan. 9 that our internet connection was very slow and behaving oddly. Looking at the modem log files showed us that something was wrong so we called CenturyLink to see what we could do about it. CenturyLink looked at our hookup and determined that we would benefit by a new plan that would more than double our internet speed and help our phone line. We set a date for Thursday the 14th . I was to be there 8-4 to let a technician in. He didn’t show and CenturyLink told me he had never been scheduled for Thursday but was scheduled for Monday – which I never would have done as I had some things to do Monday. After much arguing and threatening to leave CL, I managed to arrange for a tech to be out to the house on Friday. He showed at 9 am and left at 4:30 pm. Most of his time was spent waiting on phone calls because the central office of century link did not do their job and provision the central line to work with my house. I have now wasted 2 days. THe tech (Tad – a very nice guy and seemed to know what he was doing) managed after about 10 phone calls to get the connection running for the weekend. Monday the DSL went down again. I went through the first level of support – it was clear she didn’t know what was going on, a second level supervisor, who couldn’t seem to understand basic computer and networking terms – requested her supervisor, who at least knew how to parrot tech terms to me. This one told me that the modem went out on Monday because it is a new modem and without warming to me or centery links knowledge, decided it was going to upgrade its firmware. THis is a scary procedure in the best of times and NOT SOMETHING YOU DO IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT until you got it right. Of course the update failed and my modem didn’t come back up. THe super did some sort of mumbo jumbo (and wouldn’t tell me what it was he did) and the modem came back up. I asked that the auto-update be turned off on my mode and got (it is impossible to do that – everybody who has worked on a network knows that there is a lil switch that can turn it on and off. I was GUARANTEED that the modem would not go out again and that ALL updates would be done on off hours. An hour later off line goes the modem – this time for 9 hours due to an improperly provisioned line. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY IF YOU NEED MISSION CRITICAL INTERNET – CENTURYLINK CAN”T SUPPLY IT. I was not offered an apology or reimbursement for my offline time nor the time I had to take out of my busy schedule to be there for century link not to show up

Bill Reynolds
on December 2, 2019 at 9:51 am Peter Strange Yumi

Thank you for the kind words..