Goodbye, vacation!

Tomorrow I leave the Waves/Rodanthe/Salvo area and return to work. Drat. I love my job, I really do, but I love the beach more. But without the job I can't afford the beach. I feel a bit like an addict in this way. There's something I want that I get on occasion (week at the beach) but I have to work the other 40+ weeks a year for these all-too-short weeks in view of the salt water.

But enough bitching. A lot of strange things happened this week. Of them several things I could not have anticipated occurred including:

1. coming out of "retirement" after 20 years any playing bouncer for a night
2. breaking up a fight
3. getting punched
4. applying the perfect rear naked choke to said puncher
5. configuring a Cisco router (don't I get enough of this at my "real job"?)
6. replacing two cable modems
7. riding out a tropical storm

I'm sure I'll think up some more, but quite a bit happened over what was a very lazy week. I can only imagine what would have happened had I not been so lazy and slept so late each day!

Oh, and it was HOT this week. HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT. Too darn not, as a matter of fact. This was one reason why I was so lazy - it was just too darn hot to stay outside for any measure of time (especially on the beach - you'd blister your skin out there in under one hour (not really, but it felt that way)). Next year when we plan our later summer/fall week at the beach we'll probably come down in October.

Goodbye, vacation. You were a good vacation and I hope that every member of my readership enjoys a vacation this year as satisfying as mine.

In a world..

In a world where my vacation could be totally underwater..

Chater Sucks Chapter MMXXVII

I'd post a picture of speedtest.net results but the test is unable to complete! This level of disservice to the customer is simply unacceptable. Problem is there is no other option on the island! Embarq DSL is even worse in terms of usability, constant outages and glacial speeds, at best.

Why someone doesn't provide high-speed over WiMax out here is simply beyond me. If I had any idea of what I was doing and had the money to get such a system started I would.

scenes from the outer banks

That's Ron. He stores RVs at his shop on the Outer Banks and moves them for his customers. That's The Thing. It's a local fixture around these parts.

tee hee

16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=253.793 ms
16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=2 hlim=48 time=277.317 ms
16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=3 hlim=48 time=295.074 ms
16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=4 hlim=48 time=323.969 ms

IT'S ALIVE!!!! Now to make it do something cool.

traceroute6 to www.kame.net (2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085) from 2002:4b88:e92a::216:cbff:febc:6a62, 30 hops max, 12 byte packets
1 2002:4b88:e92a::21e:52ff:fef1:6d12 1.654 ms 1.413 ms 0.804 ms
2 * * *
3 ip-0-2-0-4.r00.asbnva01.us.b6.gin.ntt.net 25.558 ms 25.771 ms 24.544 ms
4 * fa-4-4.r05.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 30 ms *
5 ae-2.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 26.786 ms 27.76 ms 27.099 ms
6 as-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net 95.355 ms 93.753 ms 93.608 ms
7 as-1.r20.osakjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net 220.567 ms 210.83 ms as-2.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net 204.828 ms
8 ae-4.r20.tokyjp01.jp.bb.gin.ntt.net 228.829 ms 221.894 ms xe-3-2.a15.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net 212.877 ms
9 xe-3-2.a15.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net 216.372 ms 227.244 ms ge-8-2.a15.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net 220.724 ms
10 ge-8-2.a15.tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net 239.492 ms ve44.foundry6.otemachi.wide.ad.jp 219.813 ms 222.453 ms
11 ve44.foundry6.otemachi.wide.ad.jp 224.736 ms ve42.foundry4.nezu.wide.ad.jp 220.675 ms ve44.foundry6.otemachi.wide.ad.jp 238.421 ms
12 ve42.foundry4.nezu.wide.ad.jp 239.508 ms ve45.nec2.yagami.wide.ad.jp 223.663 ms ve42.foundry4.nezu.wide.ad.jp 232.607 ms
13 lo0.alaxala1.k2.wide.ad.jp 228.092 ms 219.479 ms 223.396 ms
14 orange.kame.net 223.166 ms lo0.alaxala1.k2.wide.ad.jp 232.555 ms 227.18 ms

Tragic

The market for amphibious cars and trucks is tragically underserved.

the nice guys

I'd like to see the look on the faces of the nice guys knock on the door and try to convert you to their religion when they knock on the house belonging to the gents above.

And this guy's house: