It’s only 8:30, and I’ve had enough bad luck already to fill an entire day. Maybe two days.<\/p>\n
First, Ava kicked me in the face bright and early at 5:30 this morning. Rise and shine! Then I got downstairs and discovered that a DVD rip I’d started before bed had hung up and had been running the fan on my MacBook full tilt all night. Not good. Fortunately, pouring a bowl of toasted Os and a glass of OJ went off smoothly.<\/p>\n
I went into the TV room and got things ready for Ava to watch a little Caillou during breakfast, and that wasn’t working. The server holding the Caillou episodes wasn’t responding. Since I’d just had this working, finally, two days ago, I was frustrated. I futzed with it while Ava came downstairs and sat on the couch, watching me. I reminded her that she needed to go to the bathroom before she watched TV on the couch, so she took off. I went over to the MacBook to SSH into the AppleTV to see what the problem was, and I noticed my network shares had dropped from my finder. Huh? Something wasn’t right. It was just at this moment that Ava called from the bathroom” “Daddy! Come look what I did!” I was halfway there when I head the toilet flush, and a wave of dread washed over me. Sure enough, there wasn’t a single square of TP left on the roll, and the water in the toilet was rising very quickly toward the rim.<\/p>\n
I told Ava to wait there and not touch anything. I ran downstairs to get the plunger, and I checked on the server while I was in the basement. It was cold, dark, and quiet. The server, that is. Even more not good. I grabbed the plunger and, as I bounded up the basement stairs, caught a toe on the edge of one of the stair treads. I saved myself, bending back the tip of my middle finger in the process. It hurt. But I made it upstairs and got the toilet plunged; at least she hadn’t dumped all her Crayons down there.<\/p>\n
So, I’m just off a toll-free call to a very nice woman in India. Netgear, the company that now owns the company who makes the NAS I have, is notorious for bad customer support (they didn’t own Infrant when I bought my unit). But I actually had a good experience, and I hope to get the thing RMAed at lunch and have a new power supply unit in my hands sometime next week. If you’re a praying person, please include my four Seagate HDDs in your nightly devotional (I’m such <\/em>a blasphemer!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s only 8:30, and I’ve had enough bad luck already to fill an entire day. Maybe two days. First, Ava kicked me in the face bright and early at 5:30 this morning. Rise and shine! Then I got downstairs and discovered that a DVD rip I’d started before bed had hung up and had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava","category-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-hW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}