impromptu road trip

My mom came into town this weekend just to pick up a new car. Then she was planning on heading to san antonio to see my aunt, who just had heart surgery. We got a call earlier today though from them saying that my aunt had a seizure early this morning. So after a quick prayer and agreement, colleen and i decided that I needed to come with mom down here to help take care of everything. We ended up not going all the way to SA tonight. So we're in San Angelo (the other SA) staying at a hotel with our girl Czech. We miss colleen quite a bit though :(

This is the first nice, new hotel that i've ever been in (and i've been in a few hotels) that doesn't have wireless access. I have to say that i'm dissapointed and rather freaked because i realize that i've become really really innured to convenience. I only say that because, thanks to ryan hooking me up with his old sony ericson t616 cingular phone, and a little help from howard forums; i'm using the internet through the phone's gprs connection, via bluetooth.
in non geek....i'm a huge geek. I'm ok with it.
Rather than thinking, "oh sweet, i've got an easy way to check e mail, and keep in touch", i'm thinking..."hmmm, how can in use TCP compression to suck more bandwidth out of my phone.....what is the max possible speed for GPRS? Is that a hard/fast rule? Can i bend it?"
Need I re-iterate. GEEK :)

We'll head back on friday night, so that i can get busy doing a network install for victory church. 15 beautiful iMac 17" apple machines, running windows xp pro.....on one hand, freakin cool! on the other; dang...what a waste.
Either way, it's a living :)

This week will be great because i'll get a chance to focus on some consulting stuff (network proposals in particular) and catching up on some seriously needed time with Abba.


this is the one i miss right now