So I’ve decided to enter NaBloMo as well, which just means you’ll be getting regular posts from me, once a day, for the entire month. Let’s see if I can do it, without changing the time stamp on any posts (this one doesn’t count, as I only just decided this morning to do it.)

Aaah, now all is well in the universe. I’ve switched ADSL modems now, so that I’m using my new one from my new ISP, and I even spoke to a nice dude in Montreal named Mathieu who helped me configure the modem. Silly people didn’t include the config info in the box with the modem, which I told him, because the configuration took all of 2 minutes, and most of that was waiting for the modem to reboot.

Right now I’m giggling like a mad fiend to my two new favourite tv shows tonight, How I Met Your Mother, and The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon is just high-larious…Doppler effect indeed. Great costume though, I’ve gotta keep that in mind for Halloween next year.

Dontcha just love how mysterious the Interweb is? Whether it’s the fact that you can find a sample of the theme song from your favourite childhood cartoon, or look up the history of the Concorde airplane, the Interweb is a wonderous thing. And yesterday I experienced that in full effect. For the entire day, I could not access any of the domains on my website from home. Everyone else could do it from their computer, and I could access it from work, but not home. I have no idea why that happened, as I hadn’t changed any settings on my computer, my router or my ISP, but for some silly reason, it wouldn’t work. How bizarre.

Today I’m going to switch over my DSL modem, wonder if I’ll have any adventures with that?

Welcome to the newly hosted Loose Knits. As I mentioned in my previous site, I had to move as I was running out of disk space, and I didn’t want to pay for more. Besides, I am a little tired of all the site management and upgrades, n’ such, so moving over to Wordpress.com makes my life a lot easier. Phew. So don’t forget to adjust your bookmarks and feeds, kick back and relax and enjoy the zaniness that is my life. Yeah.

I’m sure most of you didn’t notice, but I haven’t been posting much lately. I’d like to say it was because I was too busy at work, or that I was too busy visiting friends or something wholesome like that, but alas, that’s not true. Nope, I was absent because I only had dial-up internet here at home for almost two weeks. Yes, I had to go back to the stone age for a bit while I waited for my new ISP to come back online. You see, my inner frugal self thought it would be good to switch home phone & internet access a while back, but I found that was a huge mistake. HUGE! Not only did I NOT have DSL access with the new ISP, but I started having problems with my phone too. Ugh. So the internet is back to normal today, and I anticipate the phone to be back to normal shortly. Sheesh.

Add to that the insult of getting laid off from my newly purchased company along with 80 other people, and I have not had a great week. BUT, the newly purchased company gave me a killer package, so that I don’t have to work all summer! Very nice. A paid vacation, how often does that happen? So I’m taking about 4-5 weeks off right now, and then will start the job hunt in August. What’s even better about this whole situation is that:

1. It’s mid-June, so I have the whole summer to relax.
2. The IT market is quite good right now in Toronto, so I’m not worried about finding a new job. In fact, I had a contract job offer the day AFTER I got laid off. Not bad at all.
3. I’m getting paid to be a lazy bum!

Needless to say I’m not upset in the least, other than the fact was that I would’ve appreciated knowing this several weeks/months ago, so that I could’ve postponed my trip to Italy and go now for a nice month-long vacation! Sheesh. But that’s okay, because now I’ve got several road trips planned here in Ontario, which will be good. I’ll be taking some extended long weekend trips around, and not being rushed to do anything. I may try to squeeze a trip to Vancouver too, as it’s been almost 10 years since I’ve been, put it’ll have to be for a super-cheap air fare, as I don’t want to spend all my moolah on that. The upside of going to Vancouver would be that I could also do a little job hunting while there too, which would be good. Being on-site is definitely better.

In the meantime I’ve finished off my knitted squares for the blanket, and will be starting off my first pair of socks shortly. I’ll be posting pictures of the squares tomorrow, so stay tuned. So until tomorrow kiddies….