View From the Bushes

Well, I woke up at around 4:45 this morning. Generally I would be able to fall back asleep, but my youngest child, who is still breastfeeding and has a cold which prevents her from breathing through her nose was laying next to me and making sounds like a steam powered pump 25 years into a fruitless attempt to drain the swampland. I did try to get back to sleep, but I have a lot on my mind and I had woken up enough that my brain had kicked into gear and after about 15 minutes I gave it up and decided to head into work early. Which was fortunate, because about a half hour after I got in, the deluge started. Don't get me wrong, I love the rain, but I took my Eberron book into work today and I'd hate to ruin a $40 book because I forgot my jacket.

I was hoping to get a fair amount done yesterday evening, but for some reason I decided it was a good time to download and install Windows XP Service Pack 2. With my cable modem it actually didn't take that long to download. It took an equal if not greater amount of time to install, and then once it was installed there was a whole bunch of stuff you had to configure and set, so in between that and a 7:00 meeting, I didn't accomplish a whole lot. Hopefully, the weekend will be better.

Speaking of download speeds, it appears that the record for transfer speed has been broken: 6.63 gigabits/second, or a full-length DVD movie every four seconds. I wonder when that will be available in my neighborhood?

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