greatbear | Some ado about something

For the past two days I have mostly been moping around the house and sleeping while a pulled muscle in my shoulder/back makes my life miserable. Today we got socked with about four inches of snow/sleet/rain that is currently fusing itself into an immovable mess. With that, I am going to take off one more day and hope I will be up to dragging out the snowblower to clean it off the driveways. I really dont want to deal with the mess driving to work and the deadly parking lot at work. Lemme tell ya, it's hell getting old. Anyone planning to do so might want to make other plans.

Been futzing with the PCs while not able to do anything physical. Time has come to start revamping the LAN and the server. This one has been running continuously since 2000, and does not owe me anything. While the weather is nasty, I want to get some more Ethernet cables run to where the home theater setup will be (again) as well as the closet that now houses the big color laser. The wireless access points are working fine, but are way too slow for serious video streaming and file backups. Gigabit, here we come.

A lot of sad news on LJ today. This seems to be happening with increasing frequency in the last couple years. I've been hoping this is not a trend.

Jeff and I are trying to solidify travel plans and other recreational stuff for the year. Since starting his new job, he has only a piddling two weeks of vacay to start off with, so our big trip will be for a week in Provincetown during 'bear week'. Unlike last year, we are not planning on signing up for the week's events, since last year we only partook of one thing. No, this will be simply our vacation once again with the chance of running across some friends along the way. It looks like anything else we try to do will end up being mostly of the 'extended weekend' variety until Jeff gets more time off.