What's been going on?
I haven't updated the journal for a few days for a number of reasons, some of which will be covered in this entry.
First of all, last Thursday Robert and I decided to network all our computers and share the DSL line. So we hopped into the car and went out to BestBuy and picked up a router and 50 feet of cable, (to reach across the alley to his place). We already each had NIC cards and I had some cable, so that was all we needed. We got back and looked everything over, but then it was time for me to meet Ken and Kurt at The Phoenix for before dinner drinks.
So off I went. It was only 3 PM, but before dinner drinks can take some time in New Orleans... We had a few at The Phoenix and then headed out on foot to Kurt's house where we were having dinner. On the way, we stopped at Bud Rip's, a lovely old NO neighborhood bar that probably looks the way it did in the 40's. The tin ceilings and the bar are original, the atmosphere is great. This place was where all the sports writers went in the 50's and one wall is covered with celebrity pictures. During the day, the bar is sparsely populated, the TV sets are on and the drinks are cheap. At night, it's a different story; the place has been discovered by the local youth. Anyways, we had a few more drinks.
Ken and Kurt at Bud Rip's
As you can see from the picture, Ken has grown a beard. Kurt, who usually has a smile on his face, looks just like he does in every photograph ever taken of him. For some reason, he prefers to look like an angry psychopath whenever a camera is aimed in his direction. While we were there, the bartender served some chips and cheese doodles on a white paper plate. Then, it was time to get to Kurt's house two blocks away.
A new street sign had been recently installed.
Yes, they installed it upside down! Well, it's not like it was spelled wrong... We got to Kurt's house. He has a beautiful shotgun style house with all the fireplaces and architectual details you could want and it's decorated with collections of odd and wonderful old things. But before we ate, Ken had to cut Kurt's hair, so we grabbed a few beers and went out to the yard. Then, it was time to eat. Kurt made a real solid local dish; a crawfish and merliton casserole that was faulous! On the way home, Ken insisted on stopping at The Phoenix for after dinner drinks, of which there were several.
Finally, I got home. Robert was still up, so he brewed a pot of coffee and we started to set up the network. (He had run the cable over while I was drinking, er eating dinner). Now, I may not have mentioned this before, but I didn't really know anything about setting up a network. (I do now...hehe). I finally gave up around 7AM. I slept a lot Friday, for some reason, and only got about two hours of research done on the network question. Saturday, I woke up and immediately knew what to do next. By the evening, I had us all hooked up to the DSL line, (This was a good trick because Bell South offers no tech support for it.), but the computers didn't "see" each other like they should on a network. I finally figured that out on Monday. During this whole time, there was the usual constant rebooting of the three computers, (it gets so boring..) and they had to be disconnected from the DSL line while I was figuring everything out. It took hours and hours, but now I know how to do it. And it works really well. This is the first time Robert has had a broadband connection and he has been busy trying to download the entire web... I sort of didn't want to look at a computer for a while.
This didn't happen Monday.
The picture is from last spring, but we will have some flooding sometime this spring as well. I thought it was going to happen Monday. An enormous front came through in the early afternoon with 60 MPH winds, two inches of rain in an hour and wild thunderstorms that produced a record number of tornadoes and water spouts. The temperature dropped 30 degrees in 5 minutes. But the really bad stuff only lasted an hour, and my neighborhood was spared the worst. It was a little scary, because it looked like we were going to get slammed.
The sun came out this afternoon and everything is back to normal.
Tomorrow, there's an interview in the morning and then we go to make groceries afterwards.
And that's it.
I haven't updated the journal for a few days for a number of reasons, some of which will be covered in this entry.
First of all, last Thursday Robert and I decided to network all our computers and share the DSL line. So we hopped into the car and went out to BestBuy and picked up a router and 50 feet of cable, (to reach across the alley to his place). We already each had NIC cards and I had some cable, so that was all we needed. We got back and looked everything over, but then it was time for me to meet Ken and Kurt at The Phoenix for before dinner drinks.
So off I went. It was only 3 PM, but before dinner drinks can take some time in New Orleans... We had a few at The Phoenix and then headed out on foot to Kurt's house where we were having dinner. On the way, we stopped at Bud Rip's, a lovely old NO neighborhood bar that probably looks the way it did in the 40's. The tin ceilings and the bar are original, the atmosphere is great. This place was where all the sports writers went in the 50's and one wall is covered with celebrity pictures. During the day, the bar is sparsely populated, the TV sets are on and the drinks are cheap. At night, it's a different story; the place has been discovered by the local youth. Anyways, we had a few more drinks.
Ken and Kurt at Bud Rip's
As you can see from the picture, Ken has grown a beard. Kurt, who usually has a smile on his face, looks just like he does in every photograph ever taken of him. For some reason, he prefers to look like an angry psychopath whenever a camera is aimed in his direction. While we were there, the bartender served some chips and cheese doodles on a white paper plate. Then, it was time to get to Kurt's house two blocks away.
A new street sign had been recently installed.
Yes, they installed it upside down! Well, it's not like it was spelled wrong... We got to Kurt's house. He has a beautiful shotgun style house with all the fireplaces and architectual details you could want and it's decorated with collections of odd and wonderful old things. But before we ate, Ken had to cut Kurt's hair, so we grabbed a few beers and went out to the yard. Then, it was time to eat. Kurt made a real solid local dish; a crawfish and merliton casserole that was faulous! On the way home, Ken insisted on stopping at The Phoenix for after dinner drinks, of which there were several.
Finally, I got home. Robert was still up, so he brewed a pot of coffee and we started to set up the network. (He had run the cable over while I was drinking, er eating dinner). Now, I may not have mentioned this before, but I didn't really know anything about setting up a network. (I do now...hehe). I finally gave up around 7AM. I slept a lot Friday, for some reason, and only got about two hours of research done on the network question. Saturday, I woke up and immediately knew what to do next. By the evening, I had us all hooked up to the DSL line, (This was a good trick because Bell South offers no tech support for it.), but the computers didn't "see" each other like they should on a network. I finally figured that out on Monday. During this whole time, there was the usual constant rebooting of the three computers, (it gets so boring..) and they had to be disconnected from the DSL line while I was figuring everything out. It took hours and hours, but now I know how to do it. And it works really well. This is the first time Robert has had a broadband connection and he has been busy trying to download the entire web... I sort of didn't want to look at a computer for a while.
This didn't happen Monday.
The picture is from last spring, but we will have some flooding sometime this spring as well. I thought it was going to happen Monday. An enormous front came through in the early afternoon with 60 MPH winds, two inches of rain in an hour and wild thunderstorms that produced a record number of tornadoes and water spouts. The temperature dropped 30 degrees in 5 minutes. But the really bad stuff only lasted an hour, and my neighborhood was spared the worst. It was a little scary, because it looked like we were going to get slammed.
The sun came out this afternoon and everything is back to normal.
Tomorrow, there's an interview in the morning and then we go to make groceries afterwards.
And that's it.
posted by durlx at 4/09/2002 07:47:00 PM
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