Friday. Can we pretend that day didn't exist? Note my "Thursday" entry was posted at about 3am. After I posted that I finished up work and went to bed, to get up at 9. The morning wasn't so bad, other than being horribly tired. Lunch was pizza in market since Junk had a bunch of flex left over. That was good. I think I was on either my second or third bottle of dew by then though. The beginning of the afternoon was decent, swapped more tapes out, the usual. Then something happened to Usonia2. Not sure what actually triggered it, but it was unresponsive, even through RPC. So grab the 4th bottle of dew and out the door and heading to the server room. It was so screwed up that even being off the network for 20 minutes still hadn't made it usable, but it was enough for me to plug the network cable back in and shut down file services for macintosh. Of course that caused the machine to instantly come back to life. Have I mentioned before that Microsof'ts AFP service sucks? I'll be glad to see that go away in hopefully a few short months. Anyways, that brought me a bit past 6 and by then it was Mike's turn to watch Avalon so I headed home, and promptly went to bed sometime before 8pm. That has to be like a record in the past few years. Woke up at like 9 am on Saturday when it was time for me to start watching Avalon again. Seemed to be OK with the tapes it had, so went back to bed for a while. Eventually got up even though I was tired, and cleaned the house a lot. Got the living room all cleaned out. Of course without the boxes the antenna needed a new home, so out came the paddle bits and new holes in the wall and floor. Rerouted the cable line from a wall jack to downstairs in the closet, and ran a coax line from the attic down to the closet as well. The big monster antenna that was in my living room now sits up in the attic, where it gets me better reception anyways. Rerouting that meant redoing the cable bundle across the floor, which was good because now it's secured to the wall on both ends and to the carpet in the middle, so it won't be dragged back and forth anymore. Of course now if I want to connect the cable to the rest of the system in any way, I need to deal with the ground loop issue. My sub can buzz pretty loud if a ground loop gets into the system... So I ran to Home Depot, and grabbed a clamp, a couple terminals the right size for the rack, splices, and a 500ft roll of #14 green copper wire. 500ft is way too much (I need maybe 20ft), but they didn't sell shorter lengths (well, I could have bought a bunch of 8" pieces for more than the spool, but....) and the price wasn't too bad. If anyone needs green wire though, let me know. In hooking stuff up I connected the real ground first, and then the cable line, followed by the antenna. At this point there's a decent buzz from the ground differential over the digital audio line apparently leaking through the audio components on it's way to ground. Bonding the rack in though eliminated it, which is good. That effectively brings the ground levels of everything going into or out of the systems to the same level, hopefully relatively close to actual ground, and through wiring that can handle some differential. Involved in the Home Depot trip was also a trip to do some grocery shopping for tomorrow, which wasn't too bad. I need to start consolidating what I need and making fewer trips though. Finished off the day by watching Final Destination. Weird movie, funny seeing that famous Minnesotan getting decapitated. Well, I've been up for a long time, and tomorrow is a long day. For all you people asking about the Superbowl stuff and then signing off IM, basically my schedule is church, possible run into work for a couple minutes to swap tapes, and then I'll be home. So show up whenever after that (which should be early afternoon), and bring whatever you want. I should be stocked enough with snack stuff, but variety is the spice of life (OK, I definitely need more sleep). If you have any more questions you probably know my phone number, and I'll probably be on IM either on the computer or my cell (or both as usual), so bug me as needed.