Fated Strife

Hmm let’s see, lately the weather has been funky, storming, tornados, etc.. kinda reminds me back in 1997 when we had the big “downburst” (more like tornado to some people).. I believe it was around Memorial day then too, I can’t remember though, I was in middle school at the time though. hrmm

Got up about 12 or 11 or somewhere in there and went with mother to home depot and we ate at burger king. came home, talked to steven for a second but he couldnt talk cause the pool folks were supposed to be calling so I took a nap. Woke up about 6 to the phone ringing, it was Steven asking if I wanted to play some Halo so I went over there, pool people called after I got there heh. Played til 2040ish or so and him and eric were whining to each other about how unfair the game was so Eric quit, me and Steven played for a few more minutes then Eric made us turn it off so I left, now I’m home.. fun..

Thats about it, I’m about ready to retire to some sleep, work tomorrow.. ugh

Hmm.. well went with mother to lowes and kmart earlier. Talked to Steven a few times on the phone. Got to talk to Gina online some too.
Well I was on the phone with Steven about 1800 and this big storm hit, we are under a tornado watch til 2300, uggh. I need to get a 110 punchdown block to do some fun networking work. I’ve got to change some outlets too for the network crap too when I get a chance..

*yawn*

Well found this song on hardware.localhost.nl. It’s geeky but still fun to listen to.

Here are the lyrics for the song.

GigFlapping

Packets dropping…
Console locking…
Boss is knocking…

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
and the router’s in disarray
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
Now I think it’s time to RMA

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
and they’re never going to be the same
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
gotta find an SE to blame

Pinging with no reply
Pinging with no reply

You got your STM
over 1310
You got your SRP
which is DPT

You got your Sonet Rings connected via DPT
You got your OC3’s to your ISP

Oh, fiber cut, ports are shut, man this sucks

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
and the router’s in disarray
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
Now I think it’s time to RMA

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
and they’re never going to be the same
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
gotta find an SE to blame

Pinging with no reply
Pinging with no reply

You got your Single Mode
you got your Multimode
you got your GBICs
and your new ASICs

You had a fiber cut and your service dipped
and it’s all running through the same conduit

Oh, field notice, please help us, failed bus

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
and the router’s in disarray
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
Now I think it’s time to RMA

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
and they’re never going to be the same
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again
gotta find an SE to blame

[PAUSE - Ad Lib sayings ]

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (packets dropping)
and the router’s in disarray (console locking)
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (boss is knocking)
Now I think it’s time to RMA

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (pinging with no reply)
and they’re never going to be the same (pinging with no reply)
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (pinging with no reply)
damaging the passive backplane (pinging with no reply)

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (packets dropping)
and the router’s in disarray (console locking)
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (boss is knocking)
Now I think it’s time to RMA

GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (pinging with no reply)
and they’re never going to be the same (pinging with no reply)
GigE ports down, wait, now they’re up again (pinging with no reply)
damaging the passive backplane (pinging with no reply)

…[FADE]

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Backup Verses

You got your ethernet
you got your serial
you got your bri (gbics?)
you got your console

BLSR
STM
1310
Cross Connects
UPSR
ITU spacing
HSRO
dpt
srp
ieee
802.1ad
itu grid

backplane with bent pins

You got your Appletalk
you got your Token Ring
you got your Cat 3
and your 10 Base T

You got your cable modem ranging on the upstream
and the 10k covered with black coffee

You have dual fiber runs for redundancy
but your optics are covered with debris
conduit
drop shipped
round trip
microchip

redundancy
guarantee
coffee
disagree
for me
Jayshree
debris

fiber
subscriber

upstream
theme
extreme
lightbeam
pipe dream
scream

Well I got up about 9am, I went to bed about 9pm last night, Mother was supposed to call and we go to walmart last night but she slept late.

Went and got some breakfast and came home and ate and watched MASH.

Called Steven but I guess they aren’t home from church or wherever yet. I left a message for him to call me back but he probably won’t. No Gina yet today, hope she gets on.

Had a decent sized entry typed but it got deleted or something weird.

Mother is supposed to come up here and help me clean some but I doubt she will.

I need to get this stupid dresser away from beside my bed so I can move my bed to where it is. I need a little table to put beside my bed for phone, glasses, drinks, clock, etc. Might have to go to walmart and look and see what they got.

My stomach has been hurting really bad the past 2 days, cramping and junk. Wish it would stop.

Seems my life is starting to go down the drain more and more lately..

Third Day - Wire [Buy CD]

Turn on the spotlight, strike up the band
Everyone’s looking my way They came to see the excitement firsthand
And hear all that I’ve got to say

I am walking on a wire
I tiptoe in through the fire
Never looking down to see that
I am walking on a wire
The pressure’s getting higher
But I don’t look around
It’s so far to the ground

Due to my love of linux and it’s ability to be customized, I have to have some of those features with my Windows systems. One of the nice things Microsoft has done is released PowerToys for Windows xp. They offer some nice features not normally available in Xp. I have added to my system the Alt-Tab replacement, TweakUI, and the advanced calculator just to name a few. I suggest you go and check them out! I believe Ms has some of these powertoys available for older Windows versions (98, Me, 2000, etc).