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On the road again
Smirk says high to all the readers out there.
Well, we're finally on the road. The plan: pick me up around 1:00 pm, get the
SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle), then go to the office, pick up the equipment
(which ended up being six servers, four 1000′ spools of CAT-5 cable, a bunch
of tools, adaptors, cables and what not, plus our laptops and, unlike my last
trip [1], I have an unlimited data connection [2] via Smirk's laptop, so the
posts will be much better (while the keyboard sucks on the laptop, at least
it's a keyboard)). But Smirk was running a bit late, having to drive back
from Orlando this morning (it's best not to ask about that).
The clerk at the car rental agency was a hoot—he chided Smirk for making two
reservations (even going so far as slapping Smirk's wrist) and then launching
into an extended rant about the virtues of Clint Eastwood's [3] western
films. Quite amusing.
By the time we got to The Office we were running about an hour late, but in
gathering the equipment we ran into some snags (one of the servers we're
taking wasn't booting up properly), then after loading, we had to stop by
Smirk's storage unit for some rack shelving and then a stop by Radio Shack
[4] for some cable strippers.
So we're running about 3½ hours behind schedule.
But we're on our way.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/26-28
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/07/29.1
[3]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
[4]
http://www.radioshack.com/
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