Pretty normal weekend. Slept in really late on Saturday. Almost got up at noon, but then apparently fell back asleep before managing to get all the way out of bed and slept for another hour. Pretty much sat around and did nothing all day, except a bit of tech reading. Then decided I was glad I didn't choose AT&T Wireless again. As if their network wasn't bad enough already, apparently the entire thing pretty much collapsed on itself for a decent chunk of Saturday. Turns out an OC-192 in Texas went down, and apparently it handled a good chunk of their GPRS traffic. Not sure why that took out everything else exactly, but probably something to do with load and the domino effect (especially since stuff was sporadic). From what it sounds like how phones interacted with the network during this GSM sound like a pretty crappy interface method, although I'm sure the system had reasons. Why the heck should rebooting a phone be needed to reconnect? And why doesn't AT&T use the features of GSM that are sorta like the PRLs in other systems? Oh well... Sunday slept in later than I should have, but still made it to Salem basically on time. Ended up being sorta warm in there, but it was a relatively short service too, which was nice. After that sat around reading the aftermath of yesterday's problems as mentioned above. Then watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That movie has it's funny parts, but I still seriously think it's overrated. I've never gotten how people can sit there going through sound clips forever. They're maybe funny on their own as an occational thing, but putting a bunch together just gets annoying... By the time the movie was over I was definitely more interested in what was going on outside. I promptly grabbed my camera and ventured into the world of water, hard flying objects (hail and big raindrops driven by high speed wind), and bright flashes of light. Unfortunately it was one big overcast sky with nothing too interesting, but I may have gotten some other interesting ones. I just set everything up to dry out a bit when I got back inside, so I'll have to go retrieve the pics later. After that turned on the local TV to discover that everything was focusing on the weather. SD too, so you'd think that they could have put the network feeds on HD on a subchannel, but whatever. They moved Alias back to 11 something and then only put it in SD, which was a bit of a disappointment. I sat and listened to music on my big system for a while, which I don't do near often enough. The furniture in my office upstairs and the resulting speaker layout just doesn't lend itself well to a good music listening environment. It's nice to just listen to music in a relaxed environment too. If it weren't for having to go to work tomorrow, I'd probably listen to music a lot longer here.