2006-02-16

selenite and I lost our internet connection last night. It was (and still is) windy, and occasionally that's briefly taken it out before, and we had company and were busy, so didn't think much of it. This morning, after rebooting all the equipment, I still had none. That's annoying. After very long on hold, I got a cable modem support guy, who, miraculously, was polite and helpful.

What worked was when we disconnected the cable modem from the router, connected it directly to Agatha, and rebooted everything. Which presumably means our router is screwed up. So Agatha is connected, but Anvil,

selenite's computer, is not.

So, now I'm going to go try to catch up on things. I miss anything interesting?

Thursday morning our bed broke again.

This has been a recurring problem for us.

selenite's old Ikea queen size was a slat bed that used to dump my side of the mattress down repeatedly. We went to a mattress on the floor for some time, and then got a new bed.

http://celticdragonfly.livejournal.com/8082.html details the first time that bed broke. And http://celticdragonfly.livejournal.com/8515.html is when

selenite rebuilt it for us.

So Thursday it broke again. Once again, no wild, earthshattering sex was being had. We'd been asleep, early in the morning Maggie came in wanting cuddles, then after she was in with me wanted a drink. We went and got it, climbed back in, and WHAM, the corner up near my head broke.

I do NOT like that feeling. It's entirely too reminiscent of earthquakes.

After much discussion,

selenite and I decided to just take it apart, put the mattress and boxsprings back on the floor - as they had been between shortly after Jamie's birth and just after my surgery in October, when I really needed a high bed again and he'd put it back up for me - and then let him fix the frame at his leisure.

Fortunately for us,

fordprfct was kind enough to come over to help with the heavy lifting. The guys got the bed apart, and

selenite planned to put the pieces in the green bedroom - which I wanted cleaned out so we could use it as a guest bedroom this weekend, since

kd5mdk and

jazz007 are staying over for the Housefilk Saturday.

fordprfct was willing to help me clean that out, and we got it done much better and more quickly than I had anticipated. I was determined to be ruthless, which ended up with me telling

fordprfct some of the O'Henry stories he had not encountered. (What was his English teacher thinking?) Vacuumed it out, the guys moved the bed pieces in there, and we moved the old guest couch in there. (Sorry, Andy and Jazz, we haven't a real bed in there yet. There are Plans.) Thanks much for the help,

fordprfct.

So then all was well, and we could go play a couple of games of Munchkin. We've now played 3 games, and each of us has won once.

2006-02-16

sick router?

Saga of the bed, etc.

Metaquotes posts that are amusing me today