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Life between now and the 4th: work work work. I'm trying to give myself little breaks, but looks like mostly long days for a bit.

We had rain yesterday: it was wonderful! Christine was out in it and begs to differ, but memories of long rainy summer days, sitting on the porch, listening to rain fall in the pond, the heavy foliage of the south east glowing green in the gloom.... I was almost able to imagine it had been hot and that this was the relief of rain.

I even went grocery shopping in the rain.

I'm slowly identifying wildflowers from the hike and polishing photos.

My need to respond to queue is no shorter.

The home network is not getting bits moved around promptly and that's making me grumpy. I've downloaded two large files here at the office, after struggling for days. I'm using the tools to evaluate my network and upgraded our wifi access point to something with better security (we'd been meaning to do that for ages). I'm grumpy with our bandwidth provider (and am looking at Sonic.net).

I'm mad at CrashPlan (my cloud backup provider) because they wouldn't confirm whether captured traffic was to them. I'm mad because it's like having hired a furniture storage company, and when a truck shows up with guys to get your sofa, you call and ask the company if their truck has the license plate of the truck outside your door. "Oh, no, we can't tell you whether that's our truck! Woo-woo security woo-woo!" Now i can let the truck take the sofa and follow them to see where they go, and if they go to the storage facility, i can be confident i was not ripped off. But nothing's been secured by this! And i'm out the time i had to spend following the truck! Similarly, i can fiddle with my backup software and get the IP ranges it sends data to and verify whether or not the IP is indeed CrashPlan's. But if they think they are protecting anything by not disclosing their IP address range, they are clueless about security, and i don't want them keeping my data.

Rant rant rant. That's me.