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I got four hours of sleep last night.  I am more awake now than I have been at any point this week.  If these statements seem somewhat incongruous to you, rest assured: I too am confused by this turn of events.

When I woke up, I was certain that today was Friday.  When I realized that it was only Thursday, I was greatly disappointed.

I didn't do much last night.  I went to Best Buy to buy a can of compressed air to clean some of the dust out of my older computers and had to wait in line for 17 minutes before I could pay for the stupid thing.  Why would Best Buy have two people standing by the door monitoring people as they leave and only one person running a cash register?  Especially when the line for that one cash register goes all the way back through the CD section?  The only reason I got out as quickly as I did was because they opened up a second register (where, much to the consternation of a number of people, they would only accept credit cards because the kid working the register didn't have a cash drawer) and I cut in front of a bunch of people to get to the front of the new line.  After my ordeal at Best Buy I didn't have the heart to run the rest of my errands, so I went home and mowed the lawn.

I've got a technical question for all of you.  Does anyone know if it is possible to get a telnet or ssh connection through a corporate firewall?  I would like to be able to check my email and do a few other things that require a terminal connection while here at work, but the lovely corporate firewall won't let me.  Anyway, if you know of a solution, I would appreciate hearing from you.

Posted by on 12 July 2001 at 9:00 AM