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Well, last night the laptop decided that it didn't want to connect to the two wireless points in the house. It WOULD connect to the Minneapolis wireless, but not ours. I airblasted out the dust and crime, reseated the airport card and rebooted, even did a total powerdown by removing the battery. Nada. Fast forward to today. I find out from [livejournal.com profile] mirrdae that the second of our two wireless routers is also our DNS server. He tells me to reboot it, and I do... But no go. Then I get it in my head to do the same with the main wireless- And its working! Yay!

So, the laptop lives a while longer. However, I suspect that our Netgear wireless point may be starting to croak. O well, its cheaper to replace than a laptop. :)
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As is usual for me at con, I woke early. I managed at least 6 hours of sleep, and felt pretty good- despite the cookie-snafu, the Tea Party went well, and since the cookies ARE here now, I'll put some in the charity auction, and the rest will be doled out at the Sunday leftover party. :)

I tried to get on the net right off (after tea, of course), but couldn't. Not via my airport card, nor via the ethernet bridge I've been using due to there being a lot of intereference messing with the airport. I futzed with everything I knew (admittedly, not a lot there), then went to the front desk to contact the hotel's tech support (to let the roomies sleep).

25 minutes later, nothing. I gave up and returned to the room to shower. I went back to the lobby, questing for food- I was approached by the hotel rep, who let me know that it WASN'T me, and as I had suspected it was the system in the hotel. I commenced to stuff my face, and now I'm back in the room, the net's working, and all is well with the world. :)

Oh- I mentioned that I sliced myself pretty bad with an Xacto knife while cutting the bcking board for the signs- its all sealed up, no longer bleeding or hurting, and while ugly, I don't think its something to be concerned about.

Today the con officially starts, and I expect to have a very good time!
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Okay. It occasionally pays to bitch. :) I called the help number for the hotel wifi, trying to see what, if anything could be done to get online from the room. The fella I got ahold of said he thought they took Discover, and to just try it. Nada, that didn't work. So, he did something or other on his end, and Zoom! I'm online from my room! Not only that... ITS FREE! YEEEAAAHHHHHH!

On other things- I can't put signs up save in the floor-lobbies. And NO signs on the doors to the rooms- they've apparently just repainted the doors, and they'll charge $50 if the doors are damaged- AND take the sign(s) down. However, you can put a sign NEXT to your door on the wallpaper-just use low-tack tape and don't do damage. :)

As a note- There are new staff here- resturant people are cool like last year, but there is at least one new staffer at the desk- He's VERY by the book. (I'm being nice...) So, he's not gonna bend much.

ANYONE WHO SEES THIS: Let people know that the Tea Party is in room 4118, at 6 PM! I have to run out to a store yet to get styro cups, and a couple of cheap styrofoam coolers for ice, pop, roomie-munchies, juice and milk. Hopefully I'll find someone who knows the area who can get me to a grocery store... Otherwise, I take a taxi. I could rent a car, but I do NOT know the area well enough to trust myself on that.

See you all soon! And try the beef sandwich- I'll be here til Monday!
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and again. This one from Joshuain/Sylvan.

(Oh- [livejournal.com profile] mirrdae, [livejournal.com profile] joshuwain= part of the trouble with the wireless might be the transmission band of the cordless phone out front... See Skye-Bluedeer's LJ entry.)

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