Of course, the replacement router arrived precisely at 4:59PM, just as I was calling for a status update. As it turns out — and as I suspected, which is why I tried it — the problem was the adapter rather than the router itself. Once I plugged it into the new adapter, it came right back on and all was well with the world.

So our wireless router/modem died yesterday afternoon, leaving us with no internet access. I’m sitting at a Starbucks right now, because it’s free and easier than driving to school or trying to find a parking space at Winston-Salem State or Wake Forest. The really sucky thing is that it’s fall break and I was really hoping to spend these two days getting caught up — and maybe even a little bit ahead — on my work. Oh well.

The other sucky thing is that we’re actually losing the DSL next week in favor of a return to cable, so if the damned router could’ve held out for one more week, it wouldn’t have been an issue anyway.

At least the weather is nice; we even broke out one of the space heaters this morning, and we started the Hallowe’en decorating last night. I think the long hell of summer is finally over. I hate summer.

Seems we’ve found our new handyman. He’s a very chipper and friendly sort who just moved here last year from the UK. So far he seems to do good work at a reasonable price. He shows up precisely on time. And he’s not a scary redneck like so many handymen around here. He does not, alas, resemble Handy Andy in any significant way. But that’s OK.

For those of you who are keeping up, I’ve finished migrating all the old content into WordPress except for 1999, 2000, and the first nine months of 2001. Unfortunately, that was one of my most prolific periods, so it may take a while. I also haven’t yet gone back and corrected all the internal links. But I did finish my two big  goals for this month, which were to get this particularly important weekend in 2001 converted before our seventh anniversary later this month, and also to get the Planet SOMA US Tour 1998 ready to celebrate its own tenth anniversary, which starts Saturday. I hope to have the rest done by the end of November at the latest, but we’ll see about that.

Pistolera
Nuevos Osos, 2008