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#EstrellaPublishing is currently producing 60,000 premier and preferred hyper-local community magazines monthly, reaching more than 150,000+ residents in 9-affluent communities throughout Arizona's West Valley. 

From Your Neighbors, For Your Neighbors. 

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Up The Hill magazine (Estrella & CantaMia, Goodyear AZ), Viva magazine (PebbleCreek, Goodyear AZ), The Hamlet magazine (Palm Valley, Goodyear AZ), The Park magazine (Litchfield Park AZ), Main Street magazine (Verrado & Victory, Buckeye AZ), Mountain View magazine (Vistancia, Trilogy & Blackstone, Peoria AZ), The Front Porch magazine (Marley Park, Surprise AZ), The Grove magazine (Sterling Grove, Surprise AZ),

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From Me To You . . .  July 2026

I am officially resigning as Chief Technical Officer of my family. After thirty-four years of managing every technological advancement that crossed our threshold - researching, purchasing, installing, and explaining to everyone how to use the thing I just installed, I am done. My brain is full. Actually, I think it is broken.

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The breaking point was a camera. Not a complicated piece of military equipment. A security camera. One single additional camera to add to a system I had already successfully built and expanded over the years. I know this system. I built this system. And yet there I stood, like a stranger in my own home, watching the little device refuse to connect to the internet.

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I did all the right things. I troubleshot. I called customer service and spent two hours on the phone with a technician who walked me through every step I had already tried. We agreed the camera was faulty. They sent a new one. I plugged it in with a blend of optimism and dread and that camera also refused to connect to the internet.

 

So I went to my secondary technical support, which is to say ChatGPT, and spent an afternoon learning more about routers, gigahertz frequencies, and WAP2 versus WAP3 security protocols than any person my age should ever have to know. I followed the instructions carefully and locked myself out of my own internet dashboard. I spent the rest of the day signing every single device in the house back onto the network. The television. The thermostat. Things that should not require a password but apparently do now.

 

In a moment of clarity, I took the camera to a friend’s house to test it there. It connected immediately. Without a single complaint. Which means the camera works just fine and I have to go home and split the bandwidth again, knowing full well I will have to sign everything back in one more time.

 

Wanted: Household CTO. Applicants must be comfortable with ambiguity, allergic to instruction manuals, and willing to work for nothing. Previous experience explaining the cloud to people who remember when clouds were just weather is a plus.

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Catherine Uretsky

Editor in Chief, Estrella Publishing

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