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I’m Baaaaaack!!!!

I got my new Cablemodem today, and picked up a new switch, replaced the damaged NIC in my firewall and I’m up and running! weeeeeeeeee!

On friday, Long Island had this crazy freak-storm. It rained like a drunk taking a piss for a good 10 minutes, complete with Thunder and Lightning which took out the power in my neighborhood. If the power wasn’t enough it also took out 2 Tivos, 1 Cable box, a Network Switch, and of course, The ethernet port on my cablemodem. It’s completely sucked not having Internet access all weekend.

Panera Bread to the rescue!!!

Panera Bread is the only place that I know of that is a FREE Wi-Fi hotspot, so armed with my Orinoco Wifi card and High-gain antenna, I am able to park outside of the store and surf, read mail, etc… so here I sit. Entering even this blog. Hopefully I can swap my modem tomorrow morning, but if not, I have an apointment for a tech to come with a replacement on friday.

I have finally justified the cost of my Digital SLR. I thought spending $1500 on a camera was a lot, but after the trip to the gathering, I realize it’s not that bad. I spent about $200 on the pictures I took at the Gathering. That would afford me 3 1GB compactflash cards capable of holding over 1000 pictures at 6 Megapixels!!!!

Anyways, Some of the pics came out good.

Check em out here: http://www.jaypoc.com/CamPix/2005/jul22/

OMG I went through so much alcohol this weekend. It was fun to go back to drinking and partying, something that I just don’t get to do around here, cuz I’m always driving! Thnursday night, I got plastered drinking just about an entire small bottle of Jack Daniels in Sam’s Cola. Friday, I forgot my alcohol so I drank Cranbury Juice with Vodka and I think 1 or 2 other ingredients. Saturday night I went through 3/4 of a bottle of Malibu (Malibu and Sam). Sunday, I got my buzz off of Beer and shots of Jagermeister. That was rough, but had a few cans of Sam on me to chase the Jager with. We never got to the Blackhaus. I’ll save that for next time 😉

There’s a convenience store in Ohio called, Sheetz. This place is the best! Picture this… It’s a 7-11 style store that serves FRESH sandwiches, burgers, dogs, etc.. Not the crappy pre-packaged shit that 7-11 sells here in NY. They have these Kiosk/terminals that you walk up to and enter what you want onto the touch screen monitor. You pick the type of sandwich (Burger, Sub, Sandwich, Pretzel Dough Sandwich, Side, etc…) and pick your contents, meats, toppings, condiments, etc.

You then get your printed receipt and continue your shopping around the store or pay for your order and in 1 or 2 minutes, the worker behind the counter calls out your order # and you can pick up your FRESH sandwich, burger, etc… This place is great after being completely drunk off your ass, to stumble in and get some good hot food kicks ass, This was our routine every night. We left the campsite anywhere from 2AM to 4AM and headed down to Sheetz.

First night I had a swiss-cheeseburger, The last 2 nights, I had this Club Sandwich on a Pretzel Roll… OMG! So good!!!!!