Sunny in the south

For the last week I have watched the weather in the DC/Balto area worried about everyone. It is slightly surreal to watch the news and read the paper about the snow. I expect snow in West Virginia (actually hope for snow in West Virginia) but Northern Virginia, Baltimore - they get snow but not too much and never paralyzing. This winter has brought more snow than ever.

It is silly to fuss about our cold weather and wind here, at least we don't have to shovel or worry about how to get to the store. The few times we have had snow it has melted within two days, and be drivable the first day. We don't even have a snow shovel. Though I do think we should get one and leave it by the garage door to ward off any more bad weather. So this is my snow picture -- wimpy I know but it is the best we have!

A lesson in humility

I have always taken Bruce's complaints of ribs out of place and getting cracked with a large dose of salt. Until yesterday. Bottom line yesterday afternoon I went from feeling like I pulled something to almost in tears. This morning he graciously with an I told you so got me an emergency appointment with the chiropractor who performed minor miracles on my out of place rib. I still feel like I was in a fight and lost but I can get out of the chair on my own and only wince if I cough. I just hope that if there are more lessons to be learned like this it might be something fun.

Rabbit holes

Last weekend I tackled restoring our home network. It seemed a simple task. The last time our network went down, I had written down the settings for the router and assigned static IP addresses to the print servers. So I rebooted everything and started through the process to getting the router back on the network. Six hours later I had rebotted the router, the modem, turned off all of the computers and printers and still could not get back out onto the internet. I was still in my pjs, no shower and getting more and more frustrated. At one point my spouse, using his own internet connection, printed off directions to set up a router. It took all of my waning will not to kill him. Finally after hours of frustration I threw in the towel and declared the router dead. The happy ending is everything is back up and working using the modem. Hubby's connection is very slow -- which is why we had the router in the first place to give his office a better line of sight -- but my office works great.

This weekend I am going to tackle adding a new router to the system and starting over getting everything back on the network. Current plan is to have a shower, coffee and breakfast first.