Broadband

Well the DSL line is up and running!!!!
Now we can really multi-task (on the technical side).

We had a fairly spectacular storm (for these parts) with wind, hail, rain, lightning, and a few power failures. The official rainfall was 0.97 inch. To put it in context, the average for the month (the whole month) is 0.91 inch. It doesn't touch what's been happening in the gulf coast area but it's pretty wild for here.

Susie is finishing up a presentation that is her homework for school - of course the DSL showed up after she was 90% done with it. The presentation she's putting together is supposed to be about 45 minutes long based on a chapter from the book for the class and she's been searching the web for the material to put in it. The school had some transparencies of the charts and lists from the book but most of them were missing (she found out that they were missing after she selected the chapter).

Robert spent the day at a transmitter site, since it was zapped last night by lightning. The radio group also just entered another "book" (ratings period) so the timing of the station failure was perfect (ala Murphy's law).

Neither of us got much sleep last night as a result of the phone calls; the equipment at 23:29, calls to the equipment trying to get it running, the 04:30 call from the other Robert that he found out it was down. Robert decided that the trip was too dangerous in the dark since the (long and very rocky) road was wet. In fact when he did go up in the morning he slid off the road at one point (just into a ditch with weeds) but he drove thru it.