Peter’s Soapbox

100 Push Ups – Stall

I was supposed to do an exhaustion test on my push ups yesterday. I did, sort of, but couldn’t get past 16. I’ve been feeling out of sorts, and am trying to decide if I should just continue on in column 2 (given I could only manage 16) or try again tomorrow, or what.

Suggestions welcome.

Crunchbang, Eeebuntu, and an Etch to Lenny Upgrade

This weekend, after finding out just how easily one can accidentally invoke the option to “recover” a Windows partition on an Asus eeePC (hint: “too easily”), I decided to take the opportunity to try out a couple of different Ubuntu distros for the eeePC. Continue reading Crunchbang, Eeebuntu, and an Etch to Lenny Upgrade…

Book Review: Christopher Moore’s “The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove”

Once again, Christopher Moore fails to disappoint. Set again in the little town of Pine Cove (which you’ll remember from his first book, Practical Demonkeeping), Christopher Moore once again brings us a supernatural comedy that made me laugh at least every other page, if not on every page, in The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Continue reading Book Review: Christopher Moore’s “The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove”…

What Kind of Shape Am I Really In?

I had a routine physical a couple of weeks ago to see how I’m doing. Given my weight loss, age, and the fact that I hadn’t had one in several years, I figured it was time. I checked out pretty well in the office, and last week had bloodwork done. I just got the results. I’m within the “reference range” for a man my age on everything except my Calcium levels, which are 8.5 (in a reference range of 8.6-10.5mg/dl).

My doctor wrote a note on the results saying “These are great, Peter. Good work.”

On that note, anyone else up for joining me on the hundred pushups challenge?

Fair Point Update Du Jour

Today, we are working with Fair Point on yet another outage. This time it’s a T1 line from Brandon to Middlebury, Vermont. After the standard “It’s customer
equipment” line (which we now believe is a standard response), and a full day of down time, Fair Point finally dispatched a technician…. to the wrong end of the T1. I realized this only when he was asking about “the other T1 line” in the router. When I said “there’s only one line” I realized he was looking at the Brandon router, not the Middlebury one.

Here’s how I imagine their troubleshooting process looks:

Fair Point Troubleshooting Flowchart