Posted by Doug
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:59:42 GMT
My wife is taking my dog to obedience school. This is her account of their first night of class. Truly funny stuff.
Over Christmas holidays, Carla and I listened to Marley and Me: Live and Love with the World’s Worst Dog. While I don’t really believe Kozmo is the “World’s Worst Dog”, there was a lot of things from that book that rang true. In the book, John Grogan says he and his dog Marley are the only ones he knows that have been expelled from obedience school. I asked Carla if the teacher had kicked them out of class on the first night. She said no, but Kozmo is probably the dog with the most energy in the class (how’s that for a euphemism?).
Posted in Family, Humor | Tags dog, obedience, puppy, school | no comments
Posted by Doug
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:34:37 GMT
I work from home now pretty much full time. Tuesday night my Time Warner cable service failed. There was a significant outage in Cincinnati at that time (according to their recorded message) and so I assumed I was part of that. Wednesday morning, I was still without service. I called and they said there were no active outages at that time. When could they get someone out to fix it? Friday morning between 11:00am and 3:00pm!
So on my second week of telecommuting to my new job I had to call up my boss and say, “Sorry, I’m out.” I felt kind of stupid when he asked if I had a backup plan. My cable service (and Road Runner in particular) had been so rock solid for several years I hadn’t actually thought about a backup Internet connection.
So, per his request I’m getting Sprint’s DSL service on 2/6. Yes, Sprint is my local telco. No, I’m not very excited about that. However, ordering this DSL service has been a positive experience. They actually had earlier times for my activation, but I’m out of town next week. Their prices are pretty good: $19.95 for 1.5M down and 256K up. If that was my primary connection, I wouldn’t be happy with those speeds, but this is strictly backup.
The other positive thing. The customer service rep asked me what operating system I ran on my computer. I told her Linux because my firewall and fileserver runs Linux even though all my desktops are Macs. The exciting part is she didn’t freak out when I said Linux! In fact, Linux is officially a supported Operating System.
Oh, and before I give Time Warner a bad name, they were able to get my service back up that same day. I called several times on Wednesday and finally got someone who told me a technician would try to squeeze me in during his appointed rounds. Turns out he was there at 2 and fixed my service in a few minutes. I wasn’t there, so I don’t actually know what was wrong though.
Posted in Internet | Tags DSL, RoadRunner, Sprint, TimeWarner | 1 comment
Posted by Doug
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:30:14 GMT
One of my goals has been to get up earlier. I typically work fairly late into the evening; 12:00am – 12:30am is pretty typical. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found I need a certain number of hours to function well. So, there’s something of a disconnect between me getting up in the morning and me working late in the night.
Anyway, nobody really wakes up early and easily in the morning. Sadly, it’s our eight-year-old, Josh who has to get up the earliest. So I’ve been getting up with him in the morning and spending some quiet time with him before everyone else gets up.
This morning he was making toast while I was making coffee. My coffee maker is right next to the toaster. It struck me how funny we must have looked to an outside observer. Both of us were kinda shuffling around, each of us taking turns using the same bit of counter space. It struck me as a comical, clumsy, slow dance of the morning.
Posted in Family, Josh | Tags Coffee, dancing, morning | 1 comment
