fine whine

It would seem that I have once again emerged as the number one result for 'whine' on google.

It's pretty bad that I have nothing else to write. Today has not been an uneventful day: far from it, actually. Early this morning whilst I was working online and playing with a model railroad layout planning CAD program I began to notice some commotion outside in the dark night, when lo and behold everything went dark for but a second. My computer rebooted and I thought something about putting the UPS out in the garage to some serious use other than the fine door-stoppery with which I have apparently tasked it so far.

After the ten minutes it takes Windows to start (yes, for the time being I'm back in Windows, as I will explain) I couldn't get my modem to reconnect. It just didn't work, muttering some error message about finding no dial tone. Not so, said I, the dial tone's fine, and plugged in a phone to prove it.

At which point the outside world exploded. The loudest thunderclap and the brightest lightning strike struck, apparently right outside my window. At the time it really threw me, but thereafter it was pretty impressive, in retrospect.

It was also irrelevant to the story, as the power surge or electrical spike that apparently has hobbled my modem came several minutes before the big one. Damn, said I, it wasn't even a big one that blew it up.

So my external modem's dead. That pretty much does it for me and the great Linux experiment, as my other modems barely work under windows and are not among the select group of newfangled modems supported well under Linux. So it goes.

This all transpired within an hour or two after midnight. The day was just beginning.

Later this morning Jessica found out that her grandma had passed away, and periodic phone calls throughout the day confirmed the funeral and her parents' plan to swing by on their way to NC to take her with them. I stayed home, but felt bad about it.

Her parents' impeding arrival meant that we needed to clean, and to try to get the house looking like, well, a house inside instead of just a collection of boxes and junk. I reassembled the table, pronounced it finished and moved it and its chairs into the dining room. I'll say it looks a lot better than the card table did.col

I keep saying that I'll go around and take pictures before the place gets all dirtied up, but I stay so busy with cleaning, eating, sleeping, video gaming, lawn mowing that I just can't get in wandering around the house with a camera for the what, five minutes such a thing would take?

That was a horrible sentence.

Jessica's parents are arriving tonight to whisk her away tomorrow to North Carolina. I'm going to be staying here so that I can go to work! Woo hoo.