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(Several? One totally random thing always works for me! That being said...)
1. Any artists here selling at cons the summer and fall? Would you be willing to carry some prints, keychains, or comics of mine on your table? I'd be willing to kick in for part of the cost of the table in cash or merchandise, or offer the same deal for your art on my AnimeFest table.
2. Anyone here going to AnimeFest and willing to be a minion for me and sit with me at my table to sell stuff? In return for several hours a day at my table, I'd buy your con pass and supply meals for you. :D
3. Spent all last evening arguing with a wireless router and on the phone on hold for various flavors of tech support. The basic problem seems to be that the modem will only recognize one device at a time. I can plug it directly into my computer or directly into my laptop or directly into my TiVo, but I cannot plug it into an ethernet switch or into a wireless modem and have it give me access to the internet (It will let me have a LAN, but not grant internet access).
The cable/net company I have to use here gets points for having techs on staff at 9PM my time, but minus several million for having them be script monkeys who cannot think creatively or do any real troubleshooting beyond what's written in their procedures. I got told that since the wired connection works, it is Not Their Problem, and told to contact the Netgear and Tivo support people. When I pointed out that it not working on several different devices means that it probably is their fault, she hesitated a moment and returned to the script and told me to contact the other devices' support.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myrialux also found the modem's manual online where it says that the modem has to be in "bridge mode" to work on a network like this. The script monkey had no clue whatsoever what I was talking about with that, and kept repeating that the modem should work the way it was given to me. Bleh. I shall be Making Inquiries this coming year to various DSL and satellite providers to see if it's possible in any way to get broadband from any other company at all.
I'm wondering however -- since it might be that bridge mode thing, and since I can't access the modem to change it: what would happen if I purchased another cable modem (maybe even one with wireless router capabilities?) and tried it: would it work?
4. At least I got the Tivo set up - until I get the network thing worked out, I'll have to manually connect it to the modem every week or two to let it update, but that's doable, although annoying.
5. I purchased curtains for the living room and installed the ones over the French doors, which were Absolutely Necessary because otherwise they reflect into the TV screen annoyingly. I need to find short blackout curtains for the small bedroom window (only 32" high) as there is a FUCKING BRIGHT SECURITY LIGHT right outside of it. I think my solution for the two bizarrely different window shapes and sizes in that room will be to get a short beige curtain to cover the small window, which should blend it into the beige wall and take it visually out, and then some nice blue ones for the other one, which should draw the eye away from the small one.
6. I seem to be subscribed to HBO, which I definitely did not request when I signed up for cable service. Yet another strike against this company, and yet more time on hold for support. Gah.
7. I had a dream on Friday night that consisted of me watching two very long trailers for similar films, separated by a bizarre WW2-themed short dream. The first trailer was for a movie where a guy develops a potion/cream/what-have-you by accidentally leaving bacon simmering on his stove for a year, that safely bleaches anything - furniture, cloth, hair, skin. He noticed it did this when his dog got into it and half his fur turned white. He marketed it, and overwhelming theme of the movie was, of course, race.
The interlude had me as a WW2 soldier with a rifle who'd gotten separated from my company (er, me, not the rifle). I found a field with haystacks and holed up to sleep in one by digging a small cavern into it, getting in, and somehow filling the front of the hole up with hay so it looked like a normal haystack. I woke up a bit later on when an enemy soldier started doing the same thing on the other side of the haystack, and had to sort of travel through the haystack by digging around in order to avoid that soldier's cave. XD
Then the second trailer started, and it was similar in that it concerned someone who'd discovered a potion/cream/what-have-you that, instead of bleaching you, de-aged you. (No boiling bacon, at least!) You plastered it on and let it dry to the point where it kind of made you look like a zombie, and then you wiped it off. Underneath, you looked younger. But it had a drawback that people discovered Too Late: if you used it too much, you became invisible. It also starred Diane Keaton, presumably because I'd heard part of an interview with her on NPR about a photography book and exhibition she is curating.
I told that to my mom in a later phone call, and she pointed out that the second movie made a really interesting story idea if you weren't sure if people were going invisible or just disappearing--erasing themselves. Which is true. Hmmm.
8. The cat is still doing fine, although she does tend to come to the door and ask if she can go home now, please. She has decided the stairs are a GREAT place to sharpen her claws, so I have two scratching posts set up, one at the bottom and one at the top, on the theory that she feels the need to scent-mark areas near doors. I think it may be working a little bit.
1. Any artists here selling at cons the summer and fall? Would you be willing to carry some prints, keychains, or comics of mine on your table? I'd be willing to kick in for part of the cost of the table in cash or merchandise, or offer the same deal for your art on my AnimeFest table.
2. Anyone here going to AnimeFest and willing to be a minion for me and sit with me at my table to sell stuff? In return for several hours a day at my table, I'd buy your con pass and supply meals for you. :D
3. Spent all last evening arguing with a wireless router and on the phone on hold for various flavors of tech support. The basic problem seems to be that the modem will only recognize one device at a time. I can plug it directly into my computer or directly into my laptop or directly into my TiVo, but I cannot plug it into an ethernet switch or into a wireless modem and have it give me access to the internet (It will let me have a LAN, but not grant internet access).
The cable/net company I have to use here gets points for having techs on staff at 9PM my time, but minus several million for having them be script monkeys who cannot think creatively or do any real troubleshooting beyond what's written in their procedures. I got told that since the wired connection works, it is Not Their Problem, and told to contact the Netgear and Tivo support people. When I pointed out that it not working on several different devices means that it probably is their fault, she hesitated a moment and returned to the script and told me to contact the other devices' support.
myrialux also found the modem's manual online where it says that the modem has to be in "bridge mode" to work on a network like this. The script monkey had no clue whatsoever what I was talking about with that, and kept repeating that the modem should work the way it was given to me. Bleh. I shall be Making Inquiries this coming year to various DSL and satellite providers to see if it's possible in any way to get broadband from any other company at all.I'm wondering however -- since it might be that bridge mode thing, and since I can't access the modem to change it: what would happen if I purchased another cable modem (maybe even one with wireless router capabilities?) and tried it: would it work?
4. At least I got the Tivo set up - until I get the network thing worked out, I'll have to manually connect it to the modem every week or two to let it update, but that's doable, although annoying.
5. I purchased curtains for the living room and installed the ones over the French doors, which were Absolutely Necessary because otherwise they reflect into the TV screen annoyingly. I need to find short blackout curtains for the small bedroom window (only 32" high) as there is a FUCKING BRIGHT SECURITY LIGHT right outside of it. I think my solution for the two bizarrely different window shapes and sizes in that room will be to get a short beige curtain to cover the small window, which should blend it into the beige wall and take it visually out, and then some nice blue ones for the other one, which should draw the eye away from the small one.
6. I seem to be subscribed to HBO, which I definitely did not request when I signed up for cable service. Yet another strike against this company, and yet more time on hold for support. Gah.
7. I had a dream on Friday night that consisted of me watching two very long trailers for similar films, separated by a bizarre WW2-themed short dream. The first trailer was for a movie where a guy develops a potion/cream/what-have-you by accidentally leaving bacon simmering on his stove for a year, that safely bleaches anything - furniture, cloth, hair, skin. He noticed it did this when his dog got into it and half his fur turned white. He marketed it, and overwhelming theme of the movie was, of course, race.
The interlude had me as a WW2 soldier with a rifle who'd gotten separated from my company (er, me, not the rifle). I found a field with haystacks and holed up to sleep in one by digging a small cavern into it, getting in, and somehow filling the front of the hole up with hay so it looked like a normal haystack. I woke up a bit later on when an enemy soldier started doing the same thing on the other side of the haystack, and had to sort of travel through the haystack by digging around in order to avoid that soldier's cave. XD
Then the second trailer started, and it was similar in that it concerned someone who'd discovered a potion/cream/what-have-you that, instead of bleaching you, de-aged you. (No boiling bacon, at least!) You plastered it on and let it dry to the point where it kind of made you look like a zombie, and then you wiped it off. Underneath, you looked younger. But it had a drawback that people discovered Too Late: if you used it too much, you became invisible. It also starred Diane Keaton, presumably because I'd heard part of an interview with her on NPR about a photography book and exhibition she is curating.
I told that to my mom in a later phone call, and she pointed out that the second movie made a really interesting story idea if you weren't sure if people were going invisible or just disappearing--erasing themselves. Which is true. Hmmm.
8. The cat is still doing fine, although she does tend to come to the door and ask if she can go home now, please. She has decided the stairs are a GREAT place to sharpen her claws, so I have two scratching posts set up, one at the bottom and one at the top, on the theory that she feels the need to scent-mark areas near doors. I think it may be working a little bit.
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