Done yesterday (20110913 Tu)

[mdlbear]

0913 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=197.4; drugs, nose, teeth, Exercise
  @ gfish: Kalamazoo/Dragons music video
  @ Scott Adams Blog: Systems 09/12/2011 (haikujaguar)
    " My philosophy is that losers have goals and winners have systems. 
  * walk:  around DeAnza, a little under 3mi.
    | hot.  some twinges in the right knee; mostly better after 15-20min
  @ Occasional kvetch - This dog knows how to have fun! 
  @ Invisible Illness Awareness Week
  @ The Code Words of Breast-Cancer Awareness - NYTimes.com
    Hint:  it's not about saving the _boobies_, you idiots.  It's about saving
    the _women_!  Sheesh!
  : internet went out a little before midnight.  can ping the gateway at
    99.29.56.1 but nothing beyond that.  On hold for 45 minutes, only to find
    that there's a massive network outage in CA, and "high call volume".  So
    why haven't they changed their on-hold message?  !@#$!@#%!$%$
  * bed ~1am.  Grouch.

A fairly busy day at work, installing virtualization software. VMware doesn't have a free player for the Mac, so I went with virtualbox there. And I took a good walk: McClellan, Stelling, Stevens Creek, and Bubb Road; not quite 3 miles.

I went to Whole Paycheck on the way home; they didn't have much in the way of fish, so I settled for sausage instead: 4 mild Italian, and 2 habanero/green chili. The latter were bright, but not excessively so. Colleen and I had one of each type, saving the two remaining Italians for the YD.

The net connection crapped out a little before midnight (although the TV stayed on), and after determining that I could ping AT&T's gateway but nothing beyond it, I spent 45 minutes on hold listening to their stupid ad loop only to be told by the tech that there was a massive outage in California, and that tech support was experiencing unusually high call volumes. Ya think?

I'm afraid I wasn't too polite, though not actually abusive, when I suggested that they could have changed the on-hold message to say something about the problem. Idiots!

The gateway and my router probably needed rebooting anyway.

I should mention that it's Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. I'll have a post on mine sometime soon. Other links, as usual, in the notes.

Comments

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know about Invisible Illness Week, interesting site. I'll think about whether I have anything to say and look forward to your post.

[mdlbear]

You're welcome!

[kshandra]

The net connection crapped out a little before midnight (although the TV stayed on)

We lost connectivity around 2315 (I'd been trying to fix it on my end for a while when I tweeted). At least it was better this morning.

[mdlbear]

Yeah, that sounds about right. I tend to lose track of time when I'm deep into troubleshooting mode.