I was running around tonight from task to task becomming sidetracked at every turn. I got the kitchen table loaded into the truck to go to the D.I. tomorrow morning and when I was cleaning up the boxes that were stacked on the table I ran across a piece of coaxial cable with only one connector. Sam had been telling me the other day that he was getting HDTV really well with just a $10 radio shack rabbit ear set. He said he’d initially tried it with a piece of stripped coax. So I stripped one end of the coax and plugged it in and got 20 channels of over-the-air HDTV. Which led me to plug the vcr into the system so I could channel surf without fighting with the worthless remote that came with the tv. Doing this, I got the shirt I was wearing dirty fooling around in all the dusty hardware, so I went to get a crappy t-shirt to work in and ended up cleaning out the dresser and moving my clothes into the new dresser in the new bedroom. Some of my old clothes had been washed, but I decided they’d make better rags, so I started cutting them up. Looking for the scissors I found some tools that hadn’t been put away, so I took them downstairs and found some boxes of stuff that probably ought to go to the DI, so I took them up to put in the truck with the table, which reminded me I was going to get rid of some books…
It was about then that Brian called and said that he hadn’t been able to get one of the scratch servers at work that had crashed to come back up despite our best lights-out efforts, and if I wasn’t busy, would I mind going up and taking a look. I’m only about 15 minutes away from the machine room, so I filled my pockets with my traveling accoutrements and went up to Komas. The server wouldn’t power on, and pulling the power plug and replacing it spun the power supply fan about a quarter turn –its only sign of life. I called up Brian and we decided to give it a try at swapping the power supply out. Now this server happens to have 12 hard drives plus a cd rom and floppy drive (if I’m remembering all the plugs correctly) and I thought, as I pulled out one hot glued secured plug after another, how much it was symbolic of my night up to this point. And, as we had no spare supply, I had to down fieryfurnace013 also, so I could pull its power supply, as it’s of lesser importance. When I finally got fieryfurnace017 back together I found that its situation had not improved any. Brian decided it was probably a shorted out mother board and we’d have to swap it for ff013’s motherboard. I was disinclined to futz more at this time of night as I’m not too sure I wanted to attempt a motherboard-ectomy on a step ladder. I didn’t think I could get the machine down from near the top of its 8 foot rack by my lonesome anyway, so he said he’d get to it in the morning.
So now I’m tired and I should have gone to bed, but I’d thought ahead and phone-cam’d a picture of the mess and figured I ought to write before I let this, too, slide by.

So I got a text message on my phone from Cingular earlier. I can’t even begin to know what to say about their message to me:

CingFreeMsg: Daylinght Savings Time begins 3/11. Your device needs to be updated to reflect correct time & date. Visit Cingular.com/dst2007 from your PC for info

only four days late, but at least the message was free.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Worst
Customer Service
Ever

So I’m reading an article on ipv6 found on slashdot today and it gave this little quote:

To put this into perspective: there are currently 130 million people born each year. If this number of births remains the same until the sun goes dark in 5 billion years, and all of these people live to be 72 years old, they can all have 53 times the address space of the IPv4 Internet for every second of their lives. Let nobody accuse the IETF of being frugal this time around.

the originating article is here

I went in and gave platelets for the first time this year. I used to go do it a lot more, but somehow I can’t quite find the time to do it like I used to.

Mandi’s little friend Meeko died today. She had so much love for the little bird, and it was really cute how he played with her and would cuddle up under her chin when I was visiting. I was pretty envious because I always wanted a bird that was that kind of friendly, and I’m sad he’s gone. I know he ment a lot to her and I sat with Mandi awhile and said goodbye to him this evening. I know there’s really nothing I can do more than say I’m sorry, but I wish there was more.

I figured if I’m a-goin’ on a honeymoon I’d like to have a camera and start taking pictures for my family photo album. I’d had my eye on the Pentax W20 waterproof camera after my first kayakin’ adventure where I ended up taking the crappy digital camera out of a ziplock bag, taking a picture or two and rebagging/stowing the camera again. I figured there needs to be an easier way. So santa brought me a late Christmas present and when I was testing it out I decided I could take pictures of the fish from inside the tank.
Of course, the camera also takes dry pictures, but as I’m not photogenic enough this was the best we could do trying to get a picture to put in the Sanpete County paper to announce our wedding.


I was actually laughing at the kitten falling off the back of the couch and Kayla snapped the picture.