I called Time Warner Cable yesterday to find out the costs of Roadrunner Business Class service (motto: Same unreliability as normal Roadrunner, now for twice the cost!) I want to get service that I could use to host my home business websites. Turns out that some new packages will be debuting August 2nd. The most exciting one offers 768/768Kb and one static IP for $180/month.

Then again, what’s to stop me from ordering another residential cable modem and aggregating the two together? I already get 3 Mb/s down and 384 Kb/s up. If I bridged two cable modems together, that would give me an effective 6 Mb/s down and 768 Kb/s up for the cost of the low-end business service ($80). I’d have to do some tricker Dynamic DNS stuff to use two dynamic IPs, but I think it could be done.

I’ve started work on the Windsor Forest website. It’s using the latest Drupal, version 4.4.2, which looks really nice. I’ve done virtually no customization yet, so it’s ugly, but it’s a start.

Thanks to my brother Jeff for posting some Tivo’d pics of me at the Kerry rally. Note the hat.

Today’s thought for the day: The world is a global place.

It’s been a busy week. Last Wednesday night, I spent an hour or more under the house, assessing the leaks in our air conditioning ducts. Thursday night I spent in the attic, putting down insulation where there was none. Friday night we hosted my parents for a fun-filled dinner.

Yesterday morning, I was back under the house, replacing a duct splice that didn’t meet code. There were other ducts that needed work: some of them sitting on the junction boxes without being taped. It was leaky as hell. But after three hours of “thinking small” while I worked in the hot dark crawlspace, the bodies were all hid. Er, I mean, the ducts were in great shape.

I also took some time to pull some CAT5 cable from my garage to the den. Now I have to finish the connectors in my den and it’ll be ready to go.

Oh, and did I mention I cut the grass in our huge yard, too? And then went to Bram’s birthday party at Tanner‘s house?

Today, we took a walk after breakfast. Then Kelly cleaned up her car while I emptied six or more boxes worth of books onto my bookshelf. The scary part of that job is that it doesn’t look like I even put a dent in the pile of boxes full of books left to be shelved.

Hallie is now snoozing and I think I’ll catch a nap, too. Even Superman takes a nap every now and then.

I was tracking a package on United Parcel Service‘s website. At the bottom of the page is a list of their trademarks:

COLOR BROWN (clothing)®
COLOR BROWN (vehicles)®

Who knew you could trademark colors?

I was wondering why my email traffic was light this morning.I let siteseers.net expire this week and didn’t find out about it until today.

If you need to email me while siteseers.net works its way back into the Internet, you can try me at siteseers.com instead.

A combination of financial need, business opportunity, and my dislike of going to work each day has spurred me into a book project. A few months ago, I got started on a book about the Asterisk PBX system. I put it aside, becoming busy with other things like moving. Now that the move is (mostly) done, though, it’s time to finish the book.

I’ve also had a number of inquiries regarding my Asterisk experience. My Asterisk business is attracting attention and I intend to grow it as best I can. A book would be a great way of advertising that experience as well as provide me further education on this great system.

I drove off today with my two girls waving goodbye to me. The one I’m not married to was yelling something to me as I backed out, so I rolled down the window.

“All done. Daddy all done.” she kept saying over and over. In other words, Daddy don’t go.

It really, really, really hurts to have to drive away from that kind of love.