Some things are going well
Aug. 6th, 2012 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
banjoplayinnerdThe network is up and running, although I haven't gotten DHCP to work right with IPv6 addresses and I don't yet know why. I've had to assign static IPv6 addresses to the machines that are supposed to have particular addresses. In IPv4 you can do that easily in the machine's configuration; I'm not sure why it isn't working yet with IPv6. It's not a huge deal, since IPv4 (the traditional Internet addressing scheme rather than the way of the future) is working just fine.
One of the benefits of the new configuration is that we can control the TiVo from anywhere on the network. Makes it much easier to manage the program list.
My daughter isn't quite as depressed as she has been. Her transmission troubles turned out to be . . . well, let's not sugar coat it. She thought she was checking all her fluids, but she was wrong, and her transmission fluid was low. $40 worth of transmission and brake fluid later and the van is running flawlessly. Well, as good as it was when she bought it (used, with 150K miles on it anyway). It went all the way from Shoreline to Oak Harbor and back yesterday (160 mile round trip) without a hitch. Time for another road trip. We are considering driving down to San Diego for ConChord in October, but with airfares where they are at the moment, if the family decides to come along I'm not sure flying them down wouldn't be the way to go.
Part of that of course is dependent on how the job situation shakes out. I have two weeks left on my contact with $EMPLOYER and am still waiting to find out the value of $NEW_EMPLOYER. I have about four irons in the fire with one recruiter I'm working with, so I'm not too worried. As soon I have the next job nailed down I'll start making plans on how to spend the money I'll be earning from the job. Well, okay, I'll be figuring out which plans to implement. I already have about a dozen ways to spend each dollar I'll earn over the next six months.
One of the benefits of the new configuration is that we can control the TiVo from anywhere on the network. Makes it much easier to manage the program list.
My daughter isn't quite as depressed as she has been. Her transmission troubles turned out to be . . . well, let's not sugar coat it. She thought she was checking all her fluids, but she was wrong, and her transmission fluid was low. $40 worth of transmission and brake fluid later and the van is running flawlessly. Well, as good as it was when she bought it (used, with 150K miles on it anyway). It went all the way from Shoreline to Oak Harbor and back yesterday (160 mile round trip) without a hitch. Time for another road trip. We are considering driving down to San Diego for ConChord in October, but with airfares where they are at the moment, if the family decides to come along I'm not sure flying them down wouldn't be the way to go.
Part of that of course is dependent on how the job situation shakes out. I have two weeks left on my contact with $EMPLOYER and am still waiting to find out the value of $NEW_EMPLOYER. I have about four irons in the fire with one recruiter I'm working with, so I'm not too worried. As soon I have the next job nailed down I'll start making plans on how to spend the money I'll be earning from the job. Well, okay, I'll be figuring out which plans to implement. I already have about a dozen ways to spend each dollar I'll earn over the next six months.
