connections

just a little network rant aka regular wireless rzzl frzzl
rzzl frzzl mercury in retrograde. gar! our network's been down since saturday morning. i'm also having phone problems. when it rains it pours. i'm currently pilfering someone's connection ("jake" whoever you are i love you, man). thank gawd for people who don't close their wireless networks. but the signal is weak, so i gotta work fast.

wireless router hosed? how can it be? it's new. cable connection works if i go directly into kb's computer, but doesn't if i go directly into mine (my laptop is an ibook and when i go to charter it says "sorry chump we don't support macintosh").

meanwhile, bummer: kb's computer keeps doing this "i'm sorry but NT is forcing me to shut down in 30 seconds" and then the 29-second count down and then bzzzzt bye bye so i can't use her computer (for that matter, kb, how are you using it?! poor kb.)

meanwhile, people: reach me on my cell. if i was smart enough to give you that number.

trains and woodencrackers aka, esp wireless, the way of the future
meanwhile, trains and trains and trains: woodencracker and i must share a wireless esp connection. almost every day i am out walking along the train tracks. i love that walk. it is a weird combination walk of iron, steel, coal, and nature. lots of nature. lots of train. and all last week i kept kicking myself (ouch) because i kept forgetting to bring my camera (untrue: one, it's not my camera; two, i keep remembering but think it's too bulky for my quick walk; three, the truth = lazy).

the trains have been awesome lately. number one, the way the different trains look. number two, the way the landscape changes depending on the train, the number of trains, but most importantly, the graffiti. lately, the graffiti's been awesome. i don't know if it is because the trains are coming from a more urban setting, or if like jane goodall studying monkeys, i'm learning to see the little nuances, invisible to the untrained eye. pun intended.

but the point of all of this is, the venerable woodencracker is obviously doing the same walk i'm doing, but he's smart and taking his camera. he caught at least two of the graffiti pieces i wanted to photograph. so hurry and check them out today, because i can't link to a specific entry, just his blog in general (hint, hint cracker: fix that).



so before i put up the poems, a little about what's been going on.

» woodencracker graffiti shots

weekend

god love the weekends. birthday party for jim at dan's house. perfect. but i'm a bad one to judge as i think i only like parties where i know everyone and where there are fewer than 25 people. not true. i exaggerate as i loved the gardners christmas party and i didn't know many and i loved dan's housewarming and there were like 100 people. i'm a funny type of extrovert.

saturday morning i spent in morro bay with dan and ryan capo hitting the supposed 100 garage sales. we got to about 15 and while i think dan was a little disappointed with it overall, i made out like a bandit. plus got to hang out with dan and my little bro. what more could i want? (my actual little bro, you are right, and hopefully i will see him soon).

this is way too chatty. i'm cutting myself off.