Screw 'em. I ordered cable again just now. The only opportunity for them to get out of this mess is for it to be fixed before the weekend - if they pull it off (which I doubt), then I'll consider cancelling the cable Internet order. That's only because they can't come out for a week.
Personally, I'm fed up at this point with Speakeasy, Covad, Verizon, and the whole DSL mess. I may give the cable company my local phone service after we move just out of spite.
I think I'll have to find an alternative e-mail provider to work with besides hosting my own so that I can at least get e-mail again.
Friday, May 23, 2003
As expected...
As I so boldly predicted yesterday, my DSL cutover was not completed. What a shocker. If they do not have it done by the end of business today they're going to be dumped for cable - at least until we move. Maybe I'll take a fresh look at it then.
Thursday, May 22, 2003
My iTrip's here!
The folks at the Apple store here in Peabody called to let me know my iTrip arrived yesterday. I'm going to pick it up after work. Yippee!
On a slightly more serious note, I'll post a small review of it after I've played with it for a few days. Also, I've gotten no e-mail at home since yesterday morning because of a DSL changeover (Speakeasy is migrating me back to Covad). Verizon pulled the plug on Worldcom a day early, and theoretically I should be back online by the end of today. Needless to say, I have my doubts.
On a slightly more serious note, I'll post a small review of it after I've played with it for a few days. Also, I've gotten no e-mail at home since yesterday morning because of a DSL changeover (Speakeasy is migrating me back to Covad). Verizon pulled the plug on Worldcom a day early, and theoretically I should be back online by the end of today. Needless to say, I have my doubts.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Over the weekend
Even though the Dude's birthday isn't until Saturday, we had the party this past weekend. Almost everyone we invited made it, including several of our friends who drove up all the way from Connecticut. Mad props to them!
The party itself was almost an anticlimax. It was a lot of fun, but the little guy's really too young to appreciate the effort. Mainly he just wanted to sleep - as we'd interrupted his nap to bring him over on time. I took a lot of pictures, as did our friends. I'll be posting it all later this week.
Developmentally, he's doing pretty much the same as in the last update. Pulling up is getting easier and quicker than it was, and he stays up longer and does more once he gets up. He also takes side-to-side steps. Usually when we come in for him in the morning he's standing in his crib waiting for us. He also crawls at breakneck speed now.
Feeding is still going pretty well. He self-feeds pretty much anything that we put in front of him that he can pick up. We shred food for him because he still can't differentiate on size. He's mastered the sippy cup now, and we're giving him whole milk sometimes instead of water. He still drinks 3-4 bottles of formula per day as well.
The party itself was almost an anticlimax. It was a lot of fun, but the little guy's really too young to appreciate the effort. Mainly he just wanted to sleep - as we'd interrupted his nap to bring him over on time. I took a lot of pictures, as did our friends. I'll be posting it all later this week.
Developmentally, he's doing pretty much the same as in the last update. Pulling up is getting easier and quicker than it was, and he stays up longer and does more once he gets up. He also takes side-to-side steps. Usually when we come in for him in the morning he's standing in his crib waiting for us. He also crawls at breakneck speed now.
Feeding is still going pretty well. He self-feeds pretty much anything that we put in front of him that he can pick up. We shred food for him because he still can't differentiate on size. He's mastered the sippy cup now, and we're giving him whole milk sometimes instead of water. He still drinks 3-4 bottles of formula per day as well.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Maslow revisited
I've updated Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for the modern era. As I see it, it now goes something like this:
- Physiological needs
- Broadband needs
- Security and Safety needs
- Social needs
- Email needs
- Ego/l337 needs
- Self-actualizing needs
I'm open to suggestions on other things that belong here.
- Physiological needs
- Broadband needs
- Security and Safety needs
- Social needs
- Email needs
- Ego/l337 needs
- Self-actualizing needs
I'm open to suggestions on other things that belong here.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Brush with glory
Right after I wrote the previous entry, I went and swapped out a comm module on our Cisco 4500 - we had a BRI module in it and I replaced it with a 10BT. It went really smoothly, and our company mainframe connection was back up in a couple of minutes.
For one brief, shining moment, I knew what it felt like to be Wendell. It felt good.
Then I went home and cleaned cat puke off our bed.
For one brief, shining moment, I knew what it felt like to be Wendell. It felt good.
Then I went home and cleaned cat puke off our bed.
Feeding Frenzy
Earlier today, we gave out 44 of our old PC's (Dell 233 MHz boxes) to people here who'd entered a raffle for them. The PC's were available for pickup starting at 10:30 AM - there was a feeding frenzy like you wouldn't believe. Virtually everyone was waiting outside the rrom when I got there.
It was all we could do to shovel them out and collect the $20 checks fast enough. All the payments are going to go to charities here in town - no, not my new house. Though that would be nice...
It was all we could do to shovel them out and collect the $20 checks fast enough. All the payments are going to go to charities here in town - no, not my new house. Though that would be nice...
Monday, May 12, 2003
Closing in
We completed the P&S on Friday, after reaching an acceptable allowance for the roof work that we'll need to do. So the move is on - unless something weird happens, we'll be passing papers August 28th and moving in a couple of weeks later. Now we just have to sell our house...
This Saturday, we took David to Simard's for his first haircut. I'll be the first to say it's not the neatest cut possible (he got a bit of an inadverdent Prince Valiant), but when you consider the circumstances it all came out quite well. The pictures are online, and they show a nice, cooperative boy. But I saw the video (I should have - I shot it...), and he was one heck of a squirmer. Getting him to hold still enough to be scalped at all was a feat. He enjoyed it, though - he was just high-spirited.
This Saturday, we took David to Simard's for his first haircut. I'll be the first to say it's not the neatest cut possible (he got a bit of an inadverdent Prince Valiant), but when you consider the circumstances it all came out quite well. The pictures are online, and they show a nice, cooperative boy. But I saw the video (I should have - I shot it...), and he was one heck of a squirmer. Getting him to hold still enough to be scalped at all was a feat. He enjoyed it, though - he was just high-spirited.
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Snore
Just a side note - it's been a little tough sleeping the last few days, because the boy's had a couple of 3AM wakeup screaming incidents. The most recent one was last night. Jane normally goes and deals with any of these, but I wake up too, and usually don't fall asleep again until he does - regardless of how long it takes.
So as a result, we're both tired.
The post-inspection evaluation went better than I feared, but not as well as I hoped. There's some stuff, mostly minor, that we need to fix - the prices of which aren't too bad. But the roof is farther gone than we hoped, so that bill will be coming shortly. We're seeing if we can make an allowance for us to do the replacement now.
So as a result, we're both tired.
The post-inspection evaluation went better than I feared, but not as well as I hoped. There's some stuff, mostly minor, that we need to fix - the prices of which aren't too bad. But the roof is farther gone than we hoped, so that bill will be coming shortly. We're seeing if we can make an allowance for us to do the replacement now.
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Grumpy.
Things are a little grumpy at Casa Turiel this week. David appears to be possibly getting another tooth - he had a little blood in his slobber yesterday and he's getting whiny again. Of course, it may just have been from a undetected fall, but I suspect a tooth-related nick on his gum. In general, though, he's been fairly high-strung for the last few days. When we went to a baby shower this past Saturday he was real good, though.
And then there's the move. We bought a new house last week, and are planning to do the whole deal right around Labor Day (interested in ours? It's listed on isoldmyhouse.com - e-mail me for info). The inspection was Sunday, and it turned up a few minor, but annoying things that we're going to go have some tradesmen further evaluate today. Hopefully it'll all be minor enough that we don't have to either revisit or cancel the deal. We'll see. Yes, the new house can and will have DSL just like the current house does. It's 6700 feet from the CO.
So all in all, moving will probably be a Good Thing (I'll really miss our current house, though - it's a great turn-of-the-century home), but all the stuff associated with it simply ratchets up the stress levels. It also basically kills the vacation I was planning to take in September - we were going to go down to the Vineyard, but now we'll be moving around the same time.
Besides that, David is getting tougher to feed as he makes a shift to self-feeding. He can't quite handle a lot of foods yet, and he has definite favorites, but spoon feeding is now only something we can do if he's too tired to feed himself but he's still hungry. Right now he eats anything we can crumble for him. He also had cornbread the other day at the baby shower, and loved it. We're going to start cooking and dicing bits of veggies for him this week, too. He does not have the spoon thing down yet, though, and I expect that to take some time. The increased food fussiness is also a thing that causes grumpiness - but he's so cute it doesn't last long.
On a more cheerful note concerning the boy, he now pulls up pretty routinely, and can stand with a little assistance (mainly steadying him from the back). He has a new fun activity - he claps when you tell him to (say "clap clap clap" to him and watch him go), and he likes to pattycake. He also tries to chew on us whenever we allow it. And he's has a bit of a breakthrough with Gracie - now instead of just clutching her he actually tries to pat her, though he's still a little rough. But she loves it anyways.
The one TV show he watches routinely is Teletubbies. That works out because it comes on at our lunchtime, so Jane and/or I can eat lunch while he watches it, and he really likes it. Other than the Baby Einstein videos, there's not a lot of TV he watches otherwise, unless we're watching TiVo with him in the room with us. Mostly he plays with his toys, plays with his parents and cat (who also fall into the "toy" category), and chews on books. We read to him or try to teach him words pretty much every day. And he loves music. Most mornings now Jane knows when he's up, not because he starts screaming but because he gets up in his crib and starts his music box playing.
And then there's the move. We bought a new house last week, and are planning to do the whole deal right around Labor Day (interested in ours? It's listed on isoldmyhouse.com - e-mail me for info). The inspection was Sunday, and it turned up a few minor, but annoying things that we're going to go have some tradesmen further evaluate today. Hopefully it'll all be minor enough that we don't have to either revisit or cancel the deal. We'll see. Yes, the new house can and will have DSL just like the current house does. It's 6700 feet from the CO.
So all in all, moving will probably be a Good Thing (I'll really miss our current house, though - it's a great turn-of-the-century home), but all the stuff associated with it simply ratchets up the stress levels. It also basically kills the vacation I was planning to take in September - we were going to go down to the Vineyard, but now we'll be moving around the same time.
Besides that, David is getting tougher to feed as he makes a shift to self-feeding. He can't quite handle a lot of foods yet, and he has definite favorites, but spoon feeding is now only something we can do if he's too tired to feed himself but he's still hungry. Right now he eats anything we can crumble for him. He also had cornbread the other day at the baby shower, and loved it. We're going to start cooking and dicing bits of veggies for him this week, too. He does not have the spoon thing down yet, though, and I expect that to take some time. The increased food fussiness is also a thing that causes grumpiness - but he's so cute it doesn't last long.
On a more cheerful note concerning the boy, he now pulls up pretty routinely, and can stand with a little assistance (mainly steadying him from the back). He has a new fun activity - he claps when you tell him to (say "clap clap clap" to him and watch him go), and he likes to pattycake. He also tries to chew on us whenever we allow it. And he's has a bit of a breakthrough with Gracie - now instead of just clutching her he actually tries to pat her, though he's still a little rough. But she loves it anyways.
The one TV show he watches routinely is Teletubbies. That works out because it comes on at our lunchtime, so Jane and/or I can eat lunch while he watches it, and he really likes it. Other than the Baby Einstein videos, there's not a lot of TV he watches otherwise, unless we're watching TiVo with him in the room with us. Mostly he plays with his toys, plays with his parents and cat (who also fall into the "toy" category), and chews on books. We read to him or try to teach him words pretty much every day. And he loves music. Most mornings now Jane knows when he's up, not because he starts screaming but because he gets up in his crib and starts his music box playing.
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