I have to take a number of days off each quarter because, as a contractor, I am only budgeted for a certain amount and if I exceed that, they get upset with me and they have to juggle the books. I am currently in the middle of a long weekend. I went on a secret Christmas shopping trip, and I came back to find the internet was gone.

I spent hours yesterday on the phone and with a useless tech who changed the splitters on the house wiring and it did nothing. I went to the main office to compalin and they gave me a new Cable Modem, which helped the problem. I think I am still getting packet dropout on the route between my house and the cable company, but the new modem has a better amplifier in it and things are better.

I found a bug in my new wordpress plugin and I have to fix an issue at one of my websites, but the tools are all on my work machine. I handle email and do a little surfing, but the laptop machine at my chair in the living room is not good for doing actual work.