Where’d it go?!

Well if your hitting some problems this morning in trying to access your favorite website, don’t be suprised. There are a few huge network spots having issues - I started noticing it when I sat down around 1 after waking up, a few sites weren’t resolving - and in checking a resource or two I have I found some high high latency links.

So with a quiet morning due to the fact I can’t go anywhere - I figured I’d at least hit here and make a post - keep Rosie and her fam in your prayers, they got word yesterday her Grandfather passed away, and from talking to her a bit it sounded like he was ready to go, and doctors had come back with he may of had leukemia - but he had stopped eating - so he had made his choice I’m willing to bet - but do be praying for her father, he left last night to head towards mexico to be with his fam.

I have new-found respect for Gateway, I have always had mixed feelings about them, they tend to make a lot more “hit-or-miss” models when it comes to laptops, but today I got a laptop in to see if I could repair it and in searching around for tips on how to crack open the shell to get to the cdrom, I found Gateway’s resources for the top and was suprised to find a complete visual guide of step by step removal of the broken drive - so looks like I’ll be easily able to replace it and found a $75 CD-Rom replacement part on eBay new in box. Pretty dang cool.

I was asked this week when I was taking my road trip, and I honestly wish I knew, part of me would like to get a new car to take on the trip (thanks for the car suggestions thus far), but at the same time part of me just wants to get out there - I had a client order me a iPod and it came in damaged they didn’t have a replacement so I have like a $300 credit at the online store - and they right now have a GPS onsale for $279 - it’s pretty spiff, might apply the credit to that, rush it here, fix up the neon and just drive - not sure, I can easily work on some stuff I have been working on from the road, but part of me just really wants to disappear again, seems like whenever I dabble back into more and more work, I end up under a pile of people wanting me to do something for them - its nice to be wanted, but its also nice to just veg out and not worry about anything - heck snuck back to the office after meeting with Rosie about her school stuff, and crashed on the couch at the office for 2 hours

So time shall tell, have about $1,000 set aside for the road trip, or if not, it’d go towards a car downpayment - but then there’s also dealing with not only car payments but if financed it does have to have full coverage insurance wise, so lots of things to consider there - but maybe getting away for a few days would be good.

Well since I am in full rambling mode, I am going to go, maybe hit the store and buy some milk as I am out… maybe some oreos too… hrmm… night / morning folks.