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20030401 Tuesday April 01, 2003

Life without the Internet Our internet connection at home went down for the first time in two years yesterday. It's still down - which means I had to try to stop the shakes while I sat in front of the computer all night (working on an XDoclet/Remember Me presentation). I couldn't read any blogs, check any e-mail accounts, or talk to any CVS servers. It was miserable. However, I got a lot done and my productivity was much better. The problem is, who knows when it'll come back. Our ISP thinks it's on our end, and I think it's on their's. I suppose it could be my router. Have any of you had a Linksys router go out on you? My LAN still works fine, so I doubt it's the router. I just hope I don't have to resort to dial-up tonight.

To top it all off, when I got into work this morning, I was locked out of the network. In fact, I'm still locked out, but I have internet access, so the shakes have subsided for the moment. I guess my original contract was supposed to expire at the end of March.

I'm curious to know if anyone played an April Fools joke on anyone yet? I did on Julie - running into the bedroom all flustered and pissed, claiming that someone had stolen our car. She said, "which one?" and "well, better call the police." It barely even phased her, but I definitely got her hook, line and sinker. Then she got me back with "Want a quickie?" Of course I said "Sure!" and she retorted with "April Fools!" Damnit. Posted in General at Apr 01 2003, 09:26:18 AM MST 3 Comments

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Women are so cruel, to play with our *cough* emotions *cough* like that!

Posted by Lance on April 01, 2003 at 04:59 PM MST #

I am tempted to sing the "Married with Children" theme song here. Welcome to live with an infant. That made my day.

Posted by dsuspense on April 01, 2003 at 08:15 PM MST #

Dammit Matt, I'm going to laugh about this all day long. You told it perfectly. And tell Julie she rules. (That stolen car trick would have worked on me. I panic at the thought of ANY additional paperwork to fill out. yargh) I never think of April fools jokes cuz that would mean remembering what month it is. C

Posted by Christina on April 02, 2003 at 12:36 PM MST #

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