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This weekend wasn’t too bad. When I got home from work on Friday, I had received two items I had won from eBay, a 4-port router and a 10/100 LAN / Modem card for my (Mariah’s) laptop.

Since I wanted to stay online, I decided to futz with the laptop and get that all set up. Much like the way my luck goes, it was anything but smooth. It got to the point where anytime I tried to connect through the card, something (IE, Netscape, AIM) would crash. So, after a bit more than an hour of that, I gave up.

I ended up talking to Mariah for a while and we both got offline around midnight. I couldn’t sleep so I had the ridiculous idea to screw with the router. Surprisingly enough, the setup went VERY smooth and I had all 3 of my PC’s online and working without issue. Additionally, getting my laptop squared away wasn’t difficult at all and everything works great now! I’m very pleased with the way things are working with it! (And I can even play MechWarrior 4 again!!!)

Saturday consisted of me taking the bus down to Newport to hang with Pat and Nick. Saturday night consisted of playing D&D with Pat, Nick and Joe, after he arrived later that evening. Everything went really well. It was the first time we all played our characters together since we converted them to 3rd ed. from 2nd ed. We’re all considerably more powerful and working well together (roughly speaking). We ended up playing until about 5:00am or so. At 5:30, Joe and I left and I actually drove back to Brockton. I got right on the train without crashing at Joe’s and go home around 7:30. I was asleep about 8:00am. Needlessly to say, it was a LONG day!

Yesterday was overly uneventful by all measures of the word. I have no idea what is in store for this week, though we’re playing D&D again next weekend… which hopefully won’t run as late into the morning!