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As I write this, I’m still not home. On Sunday night. When I’m supposed to be at work at 8:00 tomorrow this morning. I’m at my parents’ because I came to do work for the company I still do IT consulting for (I was their IT department during high school). After a ridiculously long time, they finally have gotten new computers, so I came to set everything up. A weekend should be plenty of time, right? How about not.

First, there were über problems with the wireless. The computers would connect but after a few minutes, everything would stop working. After about six hours of screwing with everything, it turns out that the router just needed to be switched from channel six to eleven and everything was happy. Gah. (Well, the router’s firmware also had to be upgraded but that wasn’t the main problem). Since just getting the network working took most of yesterday (and almost made me miss movieing with Ryan — more on that in a bit), I had to do more work today. Even though everything isn’t done, we finally decided at about midnight:30 that it was time to wrap things up. The new computers are functional enough for them to get done what they need to do and I’ll make a return visit in a couple weeks.

As if all that wasn’t enough, last night my mom had a bad migraine and it didn’t go away after she went to sleep. Around five this morning, dad took her to the hospital. They decided to keep her overnight and have had her on some strong meds. With all the work, I haven’t had a chance to go visit her. Hopefully I’ll get to see her tomorrow morning before I leave for the drive back… last I heard she should be getting out tomorrow morning.

That was the not-so-good stuff from the weekend. Now for the better stuff. Hanging out with Ryan is always fun (at least from what I’ve experienced the few times I’ve gotten to do so). Last nigth, we went for coffee (and food for me) and then to see Seabiscuit. The movie was kind of a good meh. It had some neat subtle parts where rather than spell everything out, events were simply implied or hinted, but as the film dragged on toward the end, I began to wonder of those subtle parts were just edits to keep the movie from being four hours long (kind of like that sentence). And if there’s one thing Seabiscuit taught me, it’s… well, something or other about the Future.

By far the best part of this weekend was getting to talk to my brother. Those of you who know me well understand that this is a huge step for me. He and I have never been particularly close, but after I came back from day two of computer hell (ok, it wasn’t quite that bad ;-) we ended up talking for about two hours. It was really good, and I got some stuff out in the open that needed to be talked about. So yay for connecting. :-)

So now it’s gosh-darn-diciously late, and I should get in bed. Get better mommy!

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