Federally subsidized internet service

Tens of millions of Americans are eligible to get $50/month from the US government to help pay for their Internet service for the next few months. Eligibility for the "Emergency Broadband Benefit" includes people with low incomes, anyone who lost a job or significant income during the pandemic, people who are getting other benefits including food stamps, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income, and anyone who is already getting subsidized or low-income Internet service.

The FCC estimates that the application process should take about ten minutes, but you do have to apply. You can start at https://getemergencybroadband.org/how-to-apply/

Federally subsidized internet service

Tens of millions of Americans are eligible to get $50/month from the US government to help pay for their Internet service for the next few months. Eligibility for the "Emergency Broadband Benefit" includes people with low incomes, anyone who lost a job or significant income during the pandemic, people who are getting other benefits including food stamps, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income, and anyone who is already getting subsidized or low-income Internet service.

The FCC estimates that the application process should take about ten minutes, but you do have to apply. You can start at https://getemergencybroadband.org/how-to-apply/

The law authorizing this was passed in December, and the FCC now has it up and running in most of the United States.

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Today's mail brought me two certified copies of my birth certificate, from the New York City Department of Health.

Two so I can just give them to the German consulate, once I've gotten copies of my mother's relevant paperwork (which we'll have to get notarized). Though if I'm going to a notary anyhow, I might keep one of these, make one photocopy, and have that notarized.

Vegetable gardening progress

This afternoon, I went to Pemberton Farms and bought planting containers, then came home and transplanted little cucumber and salad green seedlings.

I will need to go back and buy more planters: there wasn't room in these planters for all the salad mix and cucumber seedlings I have now, and I'll need containers for the cucumbers and tomatoes I mail-ordered last fall, when I didn't want to count on being able to get to the garden center this spring. (I needed three planters, bought two, and now need two or three.)

I bought two six-packs of seedlings from Pemberton Farms last week, and transplanted the lettuce into the containers I already had from last year. They're all flourishing, which makes me happy.