I spent the first half-hour at work trying to figure out why I couldn’t login. Swapping cables, trying different ports, trying to get NIC lights to blink, the whole enchilada.<\/p>\n
I finally discovered that I could hook up through my notebook’s direct NIC, rather than through the docking station NIC.<\/p>\n
A failure in the docking station? An unexpected consequence of something goofy they’re doing to fix our network problems? Evil spirits?<\/p>\n
You be the judge.<\/p>\n
Plus, my office e-mail is still flaky as all hell. Feh. There are times I wish I were a ditchdigger.<\/p>\n
No, not really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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