The Mandelbear's Musings

Sunday was good. Not productive, but good -- Colleen and I went up to San Francisco for the Lamplighters' production of Trial By Jury and a condensed version of Gilbert's play Engaged. Trial was unmitigated fun -- pure musical fluff. Engaged was... mostly amusing, but my vicarious embarrassment kicked in at a couple of points. It was raining hard on the way home, and I had a nasty skid coming down the offramp onto Woodside Road -- we had dinner at Buck's.

Oh, yeah; Sunday was my 64^th birthday. I didn't notice any hill.

Monday was also very unproductive, without most of the good part; I slept late, and spent the day at work mostly catching up. Some progress, but not as much as I needed. And there was a power failure at home that, for some weird reason, knocked out our WiFi router. Which had also been serving as the gigabit switch, ever since my 8-port switch croaked last year. Fortunately, all the router needed was a very hard (30-30-30) reset to factory settings and a reconfigure.

I think I'll abandon my idea of making the Netgear our main router -- I want the power saving, but not at the expense of an hour's worth of fiddling every time the power goes out. The routers stayed up for 50 minutes on UPS; that's pretty good. The fileserver only stayed up for 30 (it's on a separate, smaller UPS); that's probably ok.

Links, as usual, under the cut.