Make a circuit with me.
So Qwest, as promised, had DSL running at my new home by Tuesday. The fact that it takes them 5 business days to complete this request is disheartning–but at least it’s done. Yesterday morning I activated the circuit by calling my ISP (Sound Internet) and with a few keystrokes they changed my ID over and we were live. Heather was able to use her work computer as of yesterday morning. Last night I turned on my server–which apparently needs some severe help. It was wheezing like an out-of-shape marathon runner with asthma. Nonetheless, adamkooyer.com (and all of my other .coms and .nets) are up and running. This makes me happy. But it’s not over yet. Today at noon Superior Electric will be out to survey the damage. You see, as expected, there are no ethernet runs in our new home. It was finished in 1968 from top to bottom and as you are well aware–ethernet did not exist. So I’m going to have him give me a quote on dropping a few critical lines here and there–among some other home improvements and electrical repairs. So sometime in the next few days I’m expecting to have another outage as I will need to disconnect and clean my server–then return it to service once wiring is complete. Isnt’ this fun?!
On a positive note, moving last weekend was quite successful. Thanks again, to all that were available to help on Saturday. At one point I believe we had 16 people helping. My Dad loaned us his racing trailer and called us afterward to thank us for being so organized. Although I didn’t think we were that organized, it was nice that he did. A big thanks to my Dad for that trailer! We still have many boxes to unpack, a few leftovers at the old house to grab and countless home repairs to perform–but we’re happy in our new home. In a few short weeks, the house will be shaping up. We plan to host Christmas this year for our families so we’d better get busy!
MAKE A CIRCUIT WITH ME
(Tim Worman – Phil Bloomberg)
THE POLECATS (MERCURY 6059.588, 1982)
A sweet romance is not for me
I need electricity
If you wanna make me flip
Hit me with a micro chip
[Chorus]
I’ll be a diode, cathode, electrode
Overload, generator, oscillator
Make a circuit with me
Just plug in and go-go-go
I’ll be your human dynamo
Signals in my power cord
Impulse on my circuit board
I’m an AC/DC man
You can read my circuit diagram
I feed on electric jolts
I need fifty-thousand volts
A sweet romance is not for me
I really need electricity
If you wanna make me flip
Come on and hit me with a micro chip
I’m an AC/DC man
You can read my circuit diagram
I feed on electric jolts
I need fifty-thousand volts
is it clogged with dust? that can happen. may need to replace a fan if you can’t get it spinning nice.
It is really dusty. I need to vaccuum it out. And one of the fans needs to be replaced too.
Hopefully it will do better in the new basement.