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Sep. 30th, 2008 03:23 pmWell, not really.
As to my actual life outside my apartment, it's been fun the past few days.
On my birthday, I drove to Hamburg to visit Christian and Alexandra, and their kid Kristian. Christian and Alexandra had asked me to be the kid's godfather, which I of course accepted. So I thought I'd go over and meet the little guy. Later that day I went to my work place, taking along some food or everyone.
The weekend I spent at work pretty much. And instead of going home at midnight on Sunday, Steffi and me stayed and played Rummikub until around 3am. Yesterday was similar. We played Risk until 4.30am ^_^
Lots of fun, though the dice hated me.
Let's see what we'll be doing today then d;
My internet connection has been pretty bad lately. For the past month I kept getting disconnects due to the DSL modem losing sync. I've called my ISP about it several times, but they've been hesitant in doing anything about it because I'm using a non-standard setup involving a so-called "router", and they believe that it might be the router causing it. I disagree, since the router is kinda on the wrong side of the modem to have any influence on the actual DSL connection. My opinion anyway. So, even though I've had the Red Alert 3 beta for a few weeks, I didn't play more than maybe a dozen games, half of which ended with a DSL desync on my side. (Beta's closed now, so I guess I can uninstall it ...).
I've just ordered a new router, same I got for my parents. It replaces both the current router and the modem, so if there's still any trouble afterwards, I can pretty safely say it's beyond my control and therefore the ISP's task to fix.
Anyway, it's bad for games, but the desync only lasts a few seconds, so it's not too bad for day to day internet usage, or else I already would've run amok in my ISP's offices. Sometimes the router fails to reconnect though, and I have to reset both router and modem for them to start working again. Which of course I can't do while I'm out. Sux ):
Finally, I created my first .torrent and uploaded it to The Pirate Bay. And there's even a few people downloading ... (:
As to my actual life outside my apartment, it's been fun the past few days.
On my birthday, I drove to Hamburg to visit Christian and Alexandra, and their kid Kristian. Christian and Alexandra had asked me to be the kid's godfather, which I of course accepted. So I thought I'd go over and meet the little guy. Later that day I went to my work place, taking along some food or everyone.
The weekend I spent at work pretty much. And instead of going home at midnight on Sunday, Steffi and me stayed and played Rummikub until around 3am. Yesterday was similar. We played Risk until 4.30am ^_^
Lots of fun, though the dice hated me.
Let's see what we'll be doing today then d;
My internet connection has been pretty bad lately. For the past month I kept getting disconnects due to the DSL modem losing sync. I've called my ISP about it several times, but they've been hesitant in doing anything about it because I'm using a non-standard setup involving a so-called "router", and they believe that it might be the router causing it. I disagree, since the router is kinda on the wrong side of the modem to have any influence on the actual DSL connection. My opinion anyway. So, even though I've had the Red Alert 3 beta for a few weeks, I didn't play more than maybe a dozen games, half of which ended with a DSL desync on my side. (Beta's closed now, so I guess I can uninstall it ...).
I've just ordered a new router, same I got for my parents. It replaces both the current router and the modem, so if there's still any trouble afterwards, I can pretty safely say it's beyond my control and therefore the ISP's task to fix.
Anyway, it's bad for games, but the desync only lasts a few seconds, so it's not too bad for day to day internet usage, or else I already would've run amok in my ISP's offices. Sometimes the router fails to reconnect though, and I have to reset both router and modem for them to start working again. Which of course I can't do while I'm out. Sux ):
Finally, I created my first .torrent and uploaded it to The Pirate Bay. And there's even a few people downloading ... (:
