Ever feel that you never really leave work? I had a tech problem with my wife's company last night. She works for a VoIP based answering service from our home. Their whole program runs off a bootable Knopix CD that gives Joy everything she needs to work. Well, it wasn't working. Turns out that the CD calls out to this Java based 'network speed tester' and if your upload isn't 512k it won't let you connect to the VoIP service. It's a QoS thing. Now, I'm not saying I'm an expert but I've set up a couple of VoIP networks in my time and you don't need 512k to run it, but I wasn't in a place to argue. Anyway, I ended up calling good old Time Warner tech support for some help, which is always good for a laugh.
After explaining to the 'tech' what speed I was getting and what speed I was suppose to get... and how I know what I'm getting... and no, resetting my PC will not change anything... I finally just upgraded to their ludicrous speed network of 10 Mb up and 1 Mb down. That way I don't have to suffer any more scripted troubleshooting.
Then, after teaching my boss how to make an auto-fill table of contents in Word and helping my big sister learn how to pirate DVD's I decided to hang up the help desk hat and call it a day.
That's when my MIL (mother in law) called. She had a bunch of donuts that she insisted on giving up. Joy and I have a cruise coming up in January and we are trying to get into shape so we can eat ourselves into comas on the ship. I'm really trying eat well... by well I mean 'at least better then what I normally eat'. She dropped off 4 chocolate filled donuts and I pretty much had to eat one. I gave one to Hayden and grabbed one to bring up to Joy. By the time I got back Hayden was polishing off the last one... man, that kid is quick!
Well, maybe I'll dust off that gym pass...
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