Well, yesterday the cable modem stopped working. I figure it’s on THEIR end, as per usual. That’s fine, I had other things to do besides fool around on the Internet anyway. Like catch up on reading, for instance (I finished the Lovecraft book, and I’m breaking the FIFO rule and reading Bruce’s book next). But today, the cable is still out. Eventually I decide to plug the cable modem directly into my computer and run DHCPCD to troubleshoot a bit, when, ‘lo and behold! the cable wire decided to decapitate itself. THIS could be the source of my problem, y’think? Anyway, I’ve never seen a cable wire do such a thing before (I hadn’t even been playing with it), but there’s a first time for everything, right?

Anyway, sometime during all this the power in our house gets all borken. Yesterday we thought the oven broke, but today everything in the house was doing it. It took the microwave 8 minutes to cook 3 pieces of bacon- and not even to crispy-ness! My UPS decided it couldn’t power my computer anymore (liar) and started using battery backup. So, I had to turn off my computer and kill my uptime (5 days wasn’t impressive anyway, my top was 65). Apparently our power problems are due to the 300 some odd people that moved into our town and have their air conditioners set to 50 degrees ::grumble::.

And, to add insult to injury, this server’s time is STILL borken!

Well, at least my health is returning. I had a fever last night (first time that’s happened since I started college), but I feel about 80% better today than yesterday. I need to get my health back for this weekend… looks like I’m driving to Ithaca with Bobby to help Chris move into his new place.

• No related posts.