u/jrr626

Hey all — we live near Marengo and had apparently been among the lucky few with solid Spectrum internet service....up until just recently.

We've had a few different hours-long outages over the past month or so now, including one that's actively going on as we speak today. Especially as someone who works from home, that's becoming a real problem. (It doesn't help that Spectrum conveniently raised our rates by $15/mo. for no apparent reason a couple of months ago, too, right in the midst of all of this. Yaaaay.)

I know we're annoyingly limited in high-speed options around here, but I'm thinking about giving one of the 5G home internet services a whirl to see if it's any better. Both Verizon and T-Mobile have options around $60 to $75 a month, and they both sound great on paper — but the big question, of course, is how consistent and reliable they actually are (especially with ongoing all-day use, where even the occasional blip is unacceptable). And that's just tough to know without real-world experience.

Has anyone here had any experience with either of those setups in this general area?

I'll probably give one or the other a whirl to see how it goes, but if anyone has any firsthand insight into how well either has worked around here, that'd be super-helpful to hear.

Thanks in advance!

Well, one door closes...and another opens!

Just saw a new "Coming Soon" sign going up for a Mike's Red Tacos on Del Mar and Lake — diagonally across the street from where Chronic Tacos closed earlier this summer.

It actually looks really good, too, and like something a little different from the norm:

https://www.mikesredtacos.com/

Anyone ever eaten at one?

Are you avoiding lettuce and other raw produce from restaurants and/or groceries in our area, with all the illnesses connected to that parasite — or are you just eating normally and not worrying about it?

It sure seems like we're reasonably safe and out of the path of danger — and that if our local supplies were tainted, we would've started seeing the effects of it by this point.

But there's still so much uncertainty around the whole situation that it's hard to know for sure what the right move is right now...

Anyway, curious to know how other people around here are approaching it!