Feb 5 - working out

Well, I was back at it with John and later went for a ride.  I'm not so sure that working out is a good thing because my shoulder is worse now than it was yesterday a.m., which could also be from biking ... not sure.

At any rate, I'll keep doing what I'm doing (especially the biking !) until I get some advice from the Physiotherapist on Monday.

Between the visit with John and getting out on the bike, the Brighthouse man came.  I wasn't sure if he'd find that the signal strength issue was with my added wire relocating the desk or elsewhere but after he tested both locations, it was clear that this wasn't my fault.  In fact, it tested "ok" until a few minutes later.  Apparently the line "loads up" (his term) and goes over the brink.

So ... where are the splitters.  As far as I know, there are no splitters in the house.  He checked the Brighthouse box outside and yes indeed there was a splitter there -- one branch to my computer connection and the other to a supposed TV connection that I'm not using.  Ok, that's easy, remove the splitter.  The signal was stronger there but still had some errors cropping up.

Out to the street, he checked the filter that stops TV signals from coming through and sure enough, it had gone bad.  He replaced that and then tested inside and we were getting roughly the same signal strength as outside, given another hundred or so feet of coax.

Next up, replace the modem, which was also creating problems since it wasn't talking to the office.  It took some reconfiguring at the office end but I've now got the upgraded modem, which is now standard issue.  Something went wrong with their reset, because my email addresses were rejecting ... saw that but didn't have time to investigate before going biking.  Once home, I fixed that -- it's a user-defined setup -- and we were good.  In the meantime, people were getting rejects even though the emails were actually coming through.  We looked like we were temporarily incommunicado !

The wind wasn't very cooperative since I had a headwind both ways.  It wasn't heavy-duty, but there was no free-ride back.  Contrary to the weather forecast, that wind shift took place during the day.   Even though the temperature was supposed to be in the 70's, with the wind mostly from the east coming across the cool ocean water, I needed to add my vest at one point. 

In other news ... nothing.

Sandy spent much of the day working the garden again, adding some manure, getting her exercise woman-handling 50 pound bags of the stuff.  She's not quite through the weeding but the end is in sight. 

Today ... not sure. 

Onward !