every single night, the same arrangement
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geebsI really hate it when I need to wake up early but can't get to sleep.
Had pre-Lost dinner with the usual suspects at the Eye-talian Kitchen. Service was slow as usual. And then we come back and the frickin' digital cable and internet conks out! I mean, I was able to get a signal in my room as it doesn't go through the box, but its still annoying. It looks like its some sort of upstream filtering problem as the boxes were still getting program info and the cable modem indicated the downlink data stream was fine. And the home office could remotely reset the boxes, confirming data was going to the boxes. But the house server couldn't get out. It did start working again at midnight at least, and is currently working as I type this (though I prolly just jinxed it and I won't actually be able to post this). I did noticed the problem intermittently during the day, for like periods of 10 to 20 minutes, but things seemed to be working fine before we left for the Kitchen. And I kept using the hiptop to connect to the house server throughout dinner to make things were still up. So I thought things were fine.
Owel, called the cable peeps, and they should be sending someone today, hence me needing to be asleep right now so I can get enough sleep before the guy is scheduled to come. (Of course, its working right now, but hopefully they can figure out what was causing the problem because I don't want it to occur again tonight or the next day.) Hopefully writing this all up will tire me out so I can get some frakkin' sleep. I wish the sleep function on my TV worked, that way I could leave it on as I tried to go to sleep, because the noise helps me drift off to sleep. (You know how I can't stand the silence!) Surprisingly, there's actually passable viewing choices at this time in the morning. TNT has Angel and Charmed, Buffy's on F/X, Roswell on Sci Fi, DC on TBS.
As I said, the cable came back up in time for me to catch the midnight showing of South Park, and Jericho and Crossing Jordan actually recorded, and Lost is of course available on ABC's website, so I didn't end up missing anything.
On Lost, so Claire and Jack are brother and sister?! That Ana Lucia flashback last season where she was driving Jack's dad around kinda hinted at it, but I always thought that would seem too easy. Like, "oh, Jack's dad has an Aussie daughter, let's make it the only aussie girl on the show!" So, will they ever find out? I assume the Others would know that connection, I wonder if they'll ever reveal that to Jack, who's apparently in full Other mode now, playing football with Mr Friendly.
And Patches is already dead? He was kinda pointless. Though that seems like a poor security system if its so easy to circumvent it. I mean, just building a ladder to climb "above" the fence? And what's up with Locke, acting all suspicious. Though he's right, you never know when you might need C-4. And unlike dynamite, there's less of a chance of blowing yourself up hauling it around.
Ah, the Marines come in to save Jericho. Only they're fake Marines! While a tank is a pretty sweet conveyance method (try and see if someone can rob you in that!) I don't think it would be efficient. I mean, with fuel being in such short supply, I'm skeptical they can travel too far. And Jake had a thing for the chick Marine. Jeez, he's a playa. He already has Emily and Heather, is he trying to build a harem? Though I guess Emily is back with Roger, and Heather went to that other town to build windmill parts. How would they explain her staying though? And aren't they good as dead out there with no vehicle or weapons?
And how the hell does Hawkins and family be totally oblivious to the whole Marines thing? In any case, it was totally obvious that Allison was gonna end up shooting Sarah? Its like, they made a big deal about her learning to shoot, so the obvious scenario was going to be her having to shoot Sarah when she inevitably turned on Hawkins.
Had pre-Lost dinner with the usual suspects at the Eye-talian Kitchen. Service was slow as usual. And then we come back and the frickin' digital cable and internet conks out! I mean, I was able to get a signal in my room as it doesn't go through the box, but its still annoying. It looks like its some sort of upstream filtering problem as the boxes were still getting program info and the cable modem indicated the downlink data stream was fine. And the home office could remotely reset the boxes, confirming data was going to the boxes. But the house server couldn't get out. It did start working again at midnight at least, and is currently working as I type this (though I prolly just jinxed it and I won't actually be able to post this). I did noticed the problem intermittently during the day, for like periods of 10 to 20 minutes, but things seemed to be working fine before we left for the Kitchen. And I kept using the hiptop to connect to the house server throughout dinner to make things were still up. So I thought things were fine.
Owel, called the cable peeps, and they should be sending someone today, hence me needing to be asleep right now so I can get enough sleep before the guy is scheduled to come. (Of course, its working right now, but hopefully they can figure out what was causing the problem because I don't want it to occur again tonight or the next day.) Hopefully writing this all up will tire me out so I can get some frakkin' sleep. I wish the sleep function on my TV worked, that way I could leave it on as I tried to go to sleep, because the noise helps me drift off to sleep. (You know how I can't stand the silence!) Surprisingly, there's actually passable viewing choices at this time in the morning. TNT has Angel and Charmed, Buffy's on F/X, Roswell on Sci Fi, DC on TBS.
As I said, the cable came back up in time for me to catch the midnight showing of South Park, and Jericho and Crossing Jordan actually recorded, and Lost is of course available on ABC's website, so I didn't end up missing anything.
On Lost, so Claire and Jack are brother and sister?! That Ana Lucia flashback last season where she was driving Jack's dad around kinda hinted at it, but I always thought that would seem too easy. Like, "oh, Jack's dad has an Aussie daughter, let's make it the only aussie girl on the show!" So, will they ever find out? I assume the Others would know that connection, I wonder if they'll ever reveal that to Jack, who's apparently in full Other mode now, playing football with Mr Friendly.
And Patches is already dead? He was kinda pointless. Though that seems like a poor security system if its so easy to circumvent it. I mean, just building a ladder to climb "above" the fence? And what's up with Locke, acting all suspicious. Though he's right, you never know when you might need C-4. And unlike dynamite, there's less of a chance of blowing yourself up hauling it around.
Ah, the Marines come in to save Jericho. Only they're fake Marines! While a tank is a pretty sweet conveyance method (try and see if someone can rob you in that!) I don't think it would be efficient. I mean, with fuel being in such short supply, I'm skeptical they can travel too far. And Jake had a thing for the chick Marine. Jeez, he's a playa. He already has Emily and Heather, is he trying to build a harem? Though I guess Emily is back with Roger, and Heather went to that other town to build windmill parts. How would they explain her staying though? And aren't they good as dead out there with no vehicle or weapons?
And how the hell does Hawkins and family be totally oblivious to the whole Marines thing? In any case, it was totally obvious that Allison was gonna end up shooting Sarah? Its like, they made a big deal about her learning to shoot, so the obvious scenario was going to be her having to shoot Sarah when she inevitably turned on Hawkins.
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Date: 2007-03-15 06:20 pm (UTC)I think it's an ok security system just because most people wouldn't come to the natural conclusion of "ah, a series of posts, we'd better not walk between those." Plus, it doesn't make people instantly curious as to what's behind their like a whole bunch of razor wire would.
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Date: 2007-03-15 09:14 pm (UTC)