my ear is better. various other annoying health things have also been cured. two of my dearest friends are engaged. life is pleasant.

the coolest thing i did this weekend wasn't the enjoyable bday party, nor the lovely brunch, nor sitting around in papasan chairs basking in the sun with my sweetie on her porch while drinking tasty cold beverages on a lovely afternoon (although that was close). nope. the coolest thing i did was call the antarctic on my cellphone. for free. i *love* technology sometimes.

so, AA never found my visor. and since my desktop machine is toast as well, i'm *completely* without all the information that was in the visor.

like when my doctors' appointments are. or even who the doctors are. so i guess today i'm going to call my PCP and say "hi. who did you refer me to again?" and then call them and see when my appointments are. i think there may be one this week, so i should get a move on with this.

*sigh*

so, i put a new card in a 2600. all goes well. i reboot, and a PREVIOUSLY EXISTING AND PROPERLY OPERATING interface loses its ip address and decides to come up in dhcp mode.

GAH! what a stupid fucking failure mode.

i've never seen that before. it took me a while to notice what was going on. it kept looking like some sort of fucked up routing thing on the far end of the WAN link.

it's fixed now. stupid cisco router.

wheeee!
i'm writing this on my pilot.

i love technology some days.