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It’s Monday morning, and I’m up at 0:dark:30, so while the coffee’s brewing, I’ll go ahead and update. The weekend was restful, if too short. I spent it reading, (currently, I’m making my way through the Harry Potter series, and I should probably update the bookshelf on the sidebar to reflect this), and lounging around for the most part. I played the 24 Drinking Game with Wil and Denise on Saturday night, but Denise and I drank Mountain Dew instead because I needed to get up earlier than I normally would on the weekend and Denise has been babysitting for the last week. But we had fun all the same. I’ve purchased myself a Haupauge USB TV tuner for the office, so I can watch TV in there between calls. I’m really liking it so far. It seems to be accessible for the most part, with the exception of the initial scan for channels. Once you’ve scanned for channels, you have the ability to type the channel number and it will take you to that channel. I’m thinking of bringing the digital cable box from the bedroom into the office and hooking that up so I can see how the tuner handles it. But I suppose I’ll have to clear some space off the other desk for it before doing that. I’ve been thinking of getting myself a coffee grinder and switching from canned/packed coffee to coffee beans. This would give me an opportunity to experiment with different flavors if I so chose, and freshly ground coffee always tastes better, at least to me, anyway. I’d also love to get my hands on one of those eight-in-one George Forman grills that’s a griddle and toaster oven and a few other things in one, as well as a blender. I found a book in my collection of cookbooks with nothing but chicken salad recipes in it, so I plan on experimenting with some of those too. The coffee’s done, so I’ll end this for now. Until next time.

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Well, it’s just after 03:00, on Sunday, and I’m still up. I’m writing this post from the laptop, partly to test out the email and partly because it’s been a little while since I’ve updated in any substantial way and so I figured might as well. Ever since my Mom visited, my sleep schedule has been way out of whack, but that’s a problem I always have to be on the watch for. If left to my own devices, I will stay up all night and sleep during the day, or at least most of it. Obviously, this plays havoc with the work schedule, because in most cases, (especially mine), You’re expected to get up and work something that resembles normal hours. In the technology department, I’ve switched from DSL to cable, because the DSL has turned out to be a lot less stable than it should be, even in the case of consumer accounts, and I have a business account. Well, I say switched, but I haven’t canceled the account yet because I’m not about to cough up the excessive contract termination fee just to get out of paying $34.99 each month. So what I’m going to do is switch the phone to the cable’s “digital” (VOIP) phone service, kill the phone part of the account, and pay the $34.99 until the contract ends. I don’t like it, but I guess I’ll have to just deal. Another thing I have to deal with technology-wise is the unforeseen consequence of my network being disabled since the cable company gives separate IP addresses for each system. I had forgotten when I was setting everything up that they were only going to give me one IP initially, and so I tacked on two more since I needed one immediately for the phone for work and the laptop. So I have three IPs, everything gets net connectivity, but no network since everything’s on separate IPs. So a router purchase is in my future, which will fix this problem. I’ve been saying I was going to do that for months now, but have been able to put it off since I have a hub, but the days of putting it off are now over. But the speeds I’m getting seem to be more stable for now, and faster, so all and all I can’t complain. Since this post has sat on my screen for almost an hour now, I’ll end it here. Until next time.

Originally published at Customerservant.com. You can comment here or there.