Technology Help

I subscribed to HBO. So with their new HBO Max I receive that as well. 

I also have a firestick. Because HBO and Dish had a falling out Dish my provider, no longer has HBO in the line up. But since I have prime I can access it through them. Now to my dilemna.

I am not tech savvy enough to figure this out. HBO Max worked for one day. Rick watched Super Intelligence with Melissa McCarthey as I laid on the sofa in the middle of my 10 days of misery. Then when I came out of the fog this week I tried. Can't get it to work.

It will ask me for a sign in and when I sign in it says I don't have hbo max.

But I do. So calling the firestick folks for some help is basically useless but I did it anyway. No one is in America. No one understands me and they say the same thing, I am sorry for your inconvenience, you can't get hbo max to work right? 

They had me uninstall it, reinstall it and of course that did nothing.

I have called 5x, hoping to get someone who could actually help me.

Uninstalling it 5 times is the definition of stupidity. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. 

I got an email overnight that told me to do something to the IU. 

IUD? I know that isn't it, just kidding or I'll scream.

I have no idea what the hell that is or where it is or what I'd do with it. 

They also wanted me to verify ghz.  Where do i do that? And wouldn't that be on my computer, not my TV. (my refresh rate is 59hz on my computer but that is not the same thing right?) Then it says to change the channel? Why would I do that? Where are these things and how the hell do I do this? So helpful.

Yesterday on my own I tried some things. I got to the sign in and it said I needed to update. But there was nowhere to update. I googled it of course and followed their instructions but at number 3 I did not have that on my screen even though they said it would be under XYZ, I was there and it wasn't. 

This is so damn frustrating. I don't wish to buy another service where I can get HBO so I am paying for something I can't get. I really wanted to watch Dianne Weist, Meryl Streep's new movie. (which I heard them all say it was all an improvised script. They only got an outline and then just spoke from the hip, like Curb Your Enthusiasm) 

I wish there was a place to call for this kind of help that was not in the Philippines. 

Any ideas? Do I need to hire a 14 yr old kid? I'm not opposed to doing that if I knew one. I'm so frustrated.

In other news...

A woman yesterday asked me if my boss was married. Gee, you didn't see the big gold ring on his finger? I told her he was indeed married.

She said, "Oh well I had to ask. He is so nice and good looking too."

I laughed. She said, "well I'm sure as your boss you don't see him that way"

I just said, "no I don't."

Oh my goodness! When Rick got home I looked at him in his painter pants and company T-shirt with paint all over and wearing a ball cap with the company logo.  I know he's cute, but would I see this guy and thing, Oooh gotta have him. Sorry babe, but probably now. Take off that hat and those funny glasses you wear at work and I'd see the twinkling bad boy baby blues and then possibly.  But I know him, he is a charmer, and he flirts so this old gal was probably thrilled to have him flirting with her. And it's not so much as flirting as being personable and talking to them most of the time. MOST.

I mentioned to him that Loretta called and what she asked me. 

He laughed his big hearty laugh. I said, "flirting were ya?"  

He laughed and said, "not really. She was such a cute older woman. But Margaret I think she was a good decade older at the very least than me. She gave me some cookies and as she left them on the table for me to grab so we weren't close I told her I'd hug her because I was very hungry but the pandemic won't let me". 

Oh, brother!  He said she asked him some questions about himself and they chatted about both being from Pennsylvania and that was that. 

I said," well you made an impression you old coot."

He said, "remember when the women who called were the 30s - 40s? Ah, the good old days."   

"You could  help push her walker Rick and she could push your rocker."

He threw a wadded up paper towel at me. I'm sorry but I found it all funny.

I get it, I was always flirted with back in the day. I had an Ohio cop stop me for speeding through my shortcut to my apartment and instead he had me take off my sunglasses, supposedly to see the color of my eyes, and told me I had pretty eyes and then asked me out. I did not get a ticket. :-) 

I went into a record store and the man told me if I smiled he'd give me the album for free. Don't have to tell me twice, I smiled. Sadly he wasn't looking at my face but I got a free record album while in Toronto Ontario of Robert Palmers Secrets LP.  When I got to the car and told my then-boyfriend what happened he said did you really not have to pay anything? I said I did not pay a thing! Yes, this happened a great many times in my life. I've gotten out of more tickets than you could imagine. Until around 50 things changed. Now I am invisible. Rick's shelf life apparently is far longer than mine. Figures.