hmm

i found a way to post here via email (read the FAQ, they have directions, pretty easy too) but it still seems to find a way to screw up the settings. oh well.

today was good and bad. the good was i was able to actually enjoy the nice weather we had today (it even reached 60 where i was), but the bad part was i had to enjoy it driving between 2 offices.

one office (close to home) was getting new rugs, so RB and i were rebuilding their PCs, and tending to that, but in typical fashion, everything was running behind, so there wasn't a whole lot that i could do w/o being underfoot, so after moving their server to a real secure location (by the printers) i headed back here, while RB stays there to continue the process of putting things back together. i felt a little guilty leaving him there, but there really wasn't much i could do.

while there, he mentioned getting a call from CL who informed him that our other office was still being plagued by gremlins. unfortunately, there wasn't much we could do over the phone, so i left it alone. but as time progressed while i was here, it became clear that i may need to go there to at least take a look at things and see what i could do (if anything)

as it turns out, i was able to trace the problem and get the gremlin excised it seems. tomorrow will be the real test, but so far everything is looking good. apparently, the cable that was connecting the switch to all the people being affected by this, to the switch that was providing the overall connection to the world was flakey, and once i replaced that, everything seemed to fall back into place as one would expect. this of course could have been avoided had i been able to get new cables when RB and i rewired the place, but that's a story for another day. we may be able to get it done with the new phone system which will need to pretty much remove all hardware we use with upgraded and fancy hardware. DH said there is a chance we won't have to do the rewire, as it would be done when the new phones are installed. (VoIP)

so, i get back here 330ish, and now 2 hours later, i'm counting the minutes until 6pm when i can get out of dodge. granted, i'm on call this week, so i'm not really off the clock, but so far no one has called me, so i've been nice and easy. so far, i've been lucky when i've had the pager. i've only had a few calls, and nothing that was overly serious.

ho hum.