A Lazy Weekend Off
by It's late afternoon, and I'm still in my pajamas. I only get to do this like once a year, and it's always, of course, during late December.
I've been at Kayla's since Friday afternoon, and we've just been taking it mostly easy. We have done a few useful things though. We did some shopping for "house" stuff. I'm looking to move into an apartment sometime in January, so, we went to Ikea, and picked up some plates and lamps and stuff. We got some good deals! We also went out to dinner with some friends, and then hung out at Candace's house last night. Hehe, we played a nasty game of Spoons. It was seriously cutthroat, with bleeding fingers, elbows-to-the-head, and dead-legs. Very nice early winter vacation! I can't wait till next weekend! Haha...
A few other things of note: Mikayla is now officially addicted to Super Mario 2 (on Gameboy Advance)... the first thing she does when she wakes up is starts playing. She's actually made it to Level 1-3! That's awesome!
Also, we finally got DSL at my house. It's taken about 3 or 4 years, but, oh yes, it's finally been realized. Goodbye ISDN! The DSL isn't quite the fastest thing in the world, but it's gonna be like half as much per month, and about 10 times as fast, so hey, you really can't beat that. And, we are actually allowed to set up a server on the connection now, so it's possible that I could run eZabel from my own house sometime down the road. That would save me $50 a month in hosting fees : )
Okay, everybody, I'm out for now. I hope you've all had a nice holiday (in the "vacation" sense of the word), and I'll see you on Thursday when I'm back home. If you went snowboarding..... how was it?!
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Ahhh yes, I've done a whole lot of nothing this extended weekend. Isn't it great? :)
ha ha tell me about it, yesterday me mum comes into my room at like 10am
with the usual "time to get up"and i announced "I am staying in bed"
so i stayed in bed till 2pm and didnt get dressed till like 6pm
i am such a slob!!!! ha ha
OH MY GOODNESS! you are a slob. on Mondays you don't get up until 10?...and you have your MOTHER wake you up? tisk, tisk you drunk. hahaha, j/k.
its because im off uni and work - not a regular thing and neither is my mum waking me up, she had only just got up herslef at that time :)
And this is different from your normal days how??? YOU SLOB!!
you're evil - well today i did a 12 mile hike up a MOUNTAIN in the snow and ice - v slippy - and beat all my mates down!!! go me and you call me a slob
Up a mountain? What mountain??
SNOWDON, its big lol
Is it big enough for you to ride??
lol i told you we dont ride over here, some guys were tryin to tho
Don't you feel like you wasted your day when you do that? I HATE when i sleep in past 9, 10 at the latest.
Not really....it actually feels kinda relaxin, that is if you wake up at 7 am everyday, so if you could sleep in till 2pm, that would be awesome!!
I wake up at 7 am everyday. I just hate waking up and everyone is having lunch and got so many things done and i'm just getting started.
I see..goodpoint..usually no one is home if I wake up at 2pm, but I guess your talking about EVERYONE else
well i love it especially if ive had a hectic week and little sleep, so thanks all the same but i don't mind EVERYONE else having a head start in the day because i had serious sleep catching up to do
Yeah, thats exactly what Im saying too...Man, Great Minds Think Alike...
ha ha of course of course
Thank you, thank you
it must be nice to have a extended weekend... all i had off was today :/ go me!
So, I find out Friday, that my boss is paying me to go riding my days off of work...how great is that!!
hmm yea now i really dislike you!
You may want to look more into hosting your website on your dsl. Besides the great possibilites of being hacked or ddos'ed dsl/cable dont host websites to well sometimes. Pages not being displayed and such. But i doubt this page uses that much bandwith for it be a problem and savin 50$ a month is cool too :)
How much does this site cost to run each month?
$50 a month. I would love to run it from somewhere else, but it's not practical right now.
Security wouldn't be a problem, as we already run a firewall and are pretty security conscious when it comes to that stuff. But you're right about the performance. Our DSL tops out at like 10kB/s upload, which is way too slow to serve this site.
lol firewall just slows someone down by 15 seconds and adds a lil challenege :P 10k a sec? I get over a 100 up. What kinda dsl is that? I mean 56k is like 5k up. How much you get down? And 50$ a month is pretty steep i paid 40$ for 2 years but i probably dont have some of the extra stuff you got but im sure if i added some of it i would still pay a little less :/
15 seconds if you have all your ports open. We have no open ports coming in from the outside. ICMP is enabled, so you can ping it, but there's no other services running that you can connect to. $50 a month is the minimum you can get in our area now. It's either Verizon DSL, or DirecTVDSL. They're both the same price for new users. We went with the DirecTVDSL because they don't use PPoE, and they give you a static IP address, as well as allow you to run a web server/smtp server off of it. (We're not doing any of that yet, hence no open ports)
BTW, the reason we get slow speeds is because we're at the outer limit of distance from our Central Office. We couldn't even get DSL until now, and we've been waiting for like 3 years. So, we're very happy with our 560kb down/80kb up speeds (it's increased over the past few days), especially since we're saving over $60 a month on our ISDN bill, and we've about quadrupled our bandwidth. As technology improves, it's ery possible that we'll see even better speeds from our line, since there's no upload speed cap that I know of.
i meant you said 50$ for the website hosting costs, unless u mean 50$ for your isdn bill. With the dsl do they let you have a dns entry for your ip so u can by a domain name and tie it to it? And i thought Verizon gave static ip's out. I was lookin into direct dsl but didnt hear anything good about it over here though. And how come you went with isdn? its maybe double the speed from a 56k and they charge you by the minute with idsn last time i looked at it along time ago. I would think at least cable modems would be availiable over there, thought cable service was practically everywhere.
oh yeah, website costs are $50 a month. i've looked at other hosting services that are cheaper, but they don't offer me the features i need (free third level domain names, and multiple second level domains, among many other things).
our isdn bill was very expensive, and we had it simply for the slightly faster speed (64k or 128k, and yes, charged by the minute), the fast dial-up, and the 2 extra phone lines it gave us. we used it for about 3 or 4 years. Verizon uses PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet), so it's weird, you actually connect to them just like you would a normal dial-up connection, and they renew your IP address every 15 minutes or so. This means every 15 minutes or so you either lose your internet connection temporarily, or just get some major lag.
Even though we live in NJ, we have some Eastern PA cable company (Service Electric Cable) and they don't offer anything in our area. Of course, you travel 20 miles west and you get 1-way cable, and another 20 and you get 2 way cable. ANd if you go 5 miles East, you get CableVision, and sweet Optimum Online cable Internet. Oh well....
ahh yes forgot about the the other *.ezabel.com domains. I guess thats not to bad of a deal then. Heh i remember back in the day i had a dialup unlimited and a regional calling plan and was connected for 5 straight days. Almost like a dedicated connect cept it was 56k. Yeah i like my optonline for now cause its free but once i move out im gonna probably buy bussiness grade dsl so i can get multiple ip's and allowed to make dns entrys for them and such. PPPoe is stupid, no idea why they use that :/
i love spoons!! i learned how to play that today and its now my favorite game. I no what you mean about the violence. hahaha
VT ROCKED DUDE.. one of the best weekends of my LIFE ! so much fun.. and one night at around 4am we had a wild game of spoons.. but i think i everyone was too lazy for the cutthroat.. we were just loud.
Yeah! this weekend rocked. Sugarbush was AWESOME!!! the conditions were REALLY good for how bad i thought it was going to be. Then on Tuesday we got to go to Okemo and hang out with everyone there.. it was GREAT.. There were SOOO many witnesses there. And tina was the best boarder there EVER!
"And tina was the best boarder there EVER!" She paid you didnt she?
yeah vermont was GREAT! the conditions weren't all that awesome, but the group i was with was super duper fun. and tina is the bomb, she's like the kevin jones of snowboarding
Man, I really wish I rode with Tina...she sounds Awesome!!
kevin jones is horrible.
Im not talking about Keving Jones, Im talking about Tina !!!
well i don't even know who kevin jones is.. but matt compare tina to kevin jones and i said keving jones is horrible.. so indirectly calling tina horrible.. geez dude.. get with the times.
Well, Kevin Jones is a professional Boarder..but I get what your saying now, the blondeness must have rubbed off on me...
yeah the whole thing was a joke. its like telling somebody they're "the tiger woods of golf" or the "martha stewart of cooking", or the "michael jordan of basketball" or the "john f. kennedy of crotcheting"
was JFK really good at crotcheting.. ?? i heard he wasn't that great.. maybe even a cheater
What Im wondering is, is Martha Stewart good at cooking?? She's not Italian, so that comment is up there with the Santa Clause, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and the Perfect Woman....something made up....
lol that was to funny for you to have made it up! where did you get it from! hahaha
Hey..that was a Giacomo Original!!!
I LOVE Christmas vacation. Isn't it just great?!? I couldn't go snowboarding(like christmas day every year), but it was great just staying home, eating every hour, and watching my niece and being with garrett. It actually saved me money too. nothing was open so i couldn't spend any money. how wonderful! I just wonder what this weekend will bring. any ideas?
I think you should have all eZabeler's over for an end of the year party....
HaHA, Party at my house!!! actually i should have people over. hmmm..and i could make a mess of deserts and things. hmm, yes, i think that's what i'm gonna do.
Awesome!! So can I get directions??
SNOWBOARDING ROCKED
OH YES IT DID...SNOWBOARDING ALWAYS ROCKS!!
can i just say people who board r the coolest, girls who board are flippin ace and guys well....mm okay i wont say what i think of guys who board ;) but i soooooooo need to learn, maybe i just wont come to the states this summer and ill use the money to go to europe for the winter and LEARN TO BOARD hmmmmm
If you go Riding in the winter in Europe, I'll go with you!!!
would u teach me for starters???
Of course I would...thats why I would be comming!!
yaaaaay lol, okay dotn get my hopes up cos i REALLY wanna go
Well, Im planning on going back to Europe sometime next year, let me know exaclty were your going and I'll join you!!
cool :D or u let me know where u wanna go :)
Sounds like a deal!!
okay now im gonna be all excited and go screaming round the house lol
Hey, I can hear you from here!! WOOHOO!!
did you even snowboard? or just take 3 hours to get there just to be dominated by ME!
oh my word... who got PUSHED down by a 5ft little girl yesterday? and *click click deleted*
that never happend!!!! :)
wait what happened?
I dominated Matt! haha
Of course I snowboard...and I rock at it too!!!
someones a little full of themselves...
Yeah I know....
hey legs.. is he any good ?
I've never gone with him...I wouldn't want to show him up and make him feel even worse jk
Please Blonde when are you going, then I'll go and show you who is showing who up!