Well, I'm not one to dwell on the past, as you know, mainly because I forget it so fast! But two things went wrong yesterday that drove me nuts.

 

The first was a guy who wasn't getting on the internet. Well, okay, he was, but he had the wiring all messed up so I don't even know how it worked in the first place, as it shouldn't have. So I put the wires the way they should be, and the router got an address of 0.0.0.0. Not too promising. Well, I mess with this thing for quite a while, and find that, when I plug the DSL and the laptop directly together, the laptop gets an address. So I try another router. Same exact thing. So I assign the old router the numbers I just got and it works! So I know the cabling is fine. I know the router works. So I call frontier. And get someone clueless. Honestly, you think a simple question like 

 

"How long is the DHCP lease time? As long as this MAC address keeps showing up, will it try to renew?"

 

would be answered in one of two ways:

 

"The DHCP lease time is XXX days."

 

OR

 

"I don't have that information, let me transfer you to someone who does."

 

I get neither of these responses. This is the company that won't give Scoops Ice Cream the password for the frontier router sitting on his own desk so I can set up port forwarding so he can remote access the little NAT device I bought for him. Not exactly liking frontier at this point. So I basically say, you guys are changing out your equipment, because obviously my stuff works, and a brand new router did the same thing as this one, so it's not my network. And he had the audacity to fight me on that too!! So the guy was going to bring it down and get another, but he didn't call with his status so it either worked or he didn't do it.

 

The other thing was this system that just kept eating up the RAM. I would disable stuff, reboot, it would be fine, then all of a sudden start climbing again. Got home at 8:30. Yeah, my job is fun.

 

Another very busy day today, though my last two appointments were neighbors and the same thing, setting up a new printer, so that went okay. A cleanout,

another cleanout, actually, they were basically all cleanouts. Sheesh.

 

Got two hard drives, an 8gb compact flash card, an enclosure, and a free backpack from newegg, so I put the two laptop systems together and got Vista started installing on both. Put the 60GB HD in the enclosure, seems so small still. The CF card I have a special project in mind for.

 

Oh yeah, this morning I got a call on my cell phone from a customer. I was like, Sean's not calling me this early in the morning, is it Mom? But I didn't recognize the number. It was some lady I called (the "it's not the printer after all" lady) because I wasn't sure where the street was, she wanted to cancel for Friday. I've since changed my voicemail greeting to basically say shove off if you're calling this number and not a) family or b) Sean and call the business number. Want to know why? Apart from the obvious, I totally forgot to get back to her, because I don't think about checking my cell phone messages. Well, hope she calls back tomorrow to hear the new message, and calls the proper number, because I'll probably forget again if she doesn't. 

 

Another five for tomorrow, but friday opened up because everyone canceled. Two for saturday. Have to go over to Sean's street at 9:30, so I have to get up early tomorrow. Bet there'll be traffic, my favorite.