OK, never mind that having a good week entry yesterday. My adventures in router land have brought my week down to my usual average.

I know nothing about routers and networks and things of that nature, but I now need to share my internet connection with the office across the hall. So my corporate computer gurus had me contract the work locally. And it got done yesterday, and I thought all was well. Until I tried to actually use my connection, that is.

I gave up in frustration yesterday afternoon, after waiting for freaking ever for pages to load, and watching them time out as often as not. My dinosaur of a dial-up connection at home is faster. This morning, same problem. The guy came back out and put another router in, and of course, while he was here, it worked just fine.

But it’s degenerated over the day. They tried to tell me that it has to have some time to wear in. That’s horseshit, isn’t it? A connection either works or it doesn’t. There is no break-in period, is there? I couldn’t stand it anymore today, and unplugged the damn thing, at which point my pages started loading as fast as they always have. Well that narrows the problem down pretty well, doesn’t it?

Bad router! Bad!

Also today was the last day for our main office. They’ve closed up shop and I’m the only full-time person left, barring the contractors. The office I’m outfitting is for the last two engineers/management types to work out of once in a while. I got a little teary saying goodbye to the Big Boss and the secretary. The place has been practically stripped, and looks every bit as eerie as the buildings that were abandoned in 1995.

For months, we’ve been cleaning out that building; moving some documents up to Sacramento for archiving, moving some into my office or the one across the hall, and shredding tons of paper. And now all of that preparation is over, and it feels sudden. It’s not, but it feels that way. It’s going to take me a while to adjust to the changes.

It always does.