2024-25 Trip to the Southeast, Day 23

Day 23, Monday, November 11, 2024 - Florence Marine State Park, Omaha, GA, Day 2 - 0 Miles, 1,392.9 Miles for the Trip

Well, this park is a good location to convince me to keep my XM Radio subscriptions. I'm not willing to pay full price, but if I call and threaten to quit every 6 months, I get it for around $7.00 per month each for the trailer & truck. When I started it was $6.00, but like everything else, prices go up. There are no classical or NPR FM radio stations that I can get on my trailer radio, and Verizon's data speed is too slow for internet radio. So, unless I want to listen to country music, modern rock,  or religious stations, my XM Radio is the only choice for background noise.

A pleasant night with a low of 63°F. I walked around the campground (about 1/2 mile) before breakfast, then read some forums while drinking my morning coffee. Verizon is slow, but it does work.

I don't know if it is the slow internet connection or that I'm getting close to a time zone change, but my phone & watch both dropped back an hour. I had to go to the phone and manually tell it I'm in New York's time zone to get it back to the correct time. Both my weather stations & my Kindle show the correct time. Even stranger; my laptop is, like the phone, is set to automatically set the time zone. It didn't switch. 

I checked my Rand McNally Road Atlas & it shows the switch between Eastern & Central time goes through the Walter F. George Reservoir (the one the campground sits on), so my phone is switching just like when staying on the edge of the Colorado River in Arizona. The solution is to shut off automatic & pick a city you know is in your current time zone. You need to be careful with the calendar because changing time zones changes appointment times. After mixed up times when scheduling while out west for home town area appointments, I now am in the habit of putting the actual eastern time in the notes section of the calendar.

Well, the phone connection held up & I had my TeleMed conference with my doctor. The rest of the afternoon was spent as usual, reading outside in my folding chair. A few bugs, but nice weather at 74°F. I finished Liberman's Day by Stuart M. Kaminsky, and started Jonathan Kellerman's Blood Test, written in 1986 and the second book in the Alex Delaware series. There are 40 of them; I've read most, and was surprised that I hadn't read this one.

Dinner was a blueberry muffin and a can of Creamy Chicken & Dumpling soup. 

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