More Comcast, this time good

I had a static IP and Comcast finally caught it. I didn't need it anymore, but forgot about it. It took a while with the comcast help desk guy, David, to find it. He was very nice and patient. He figured out pretty soon that I knew a thing or two about computers and started asking me for help about VPNs. His tech genius guy checked out what he was doing and noticed the problem right away. All went well. But then he had to try the hard sell on their phone over cable service. I tried to tell him I don't want all my eggs in one Comcast basket, on one pipe headed out of the house; I will keep my mature twisted pair service for now.

Chicago

I am in Chicagoland for the Force.com seminar on Thurs. I brought my bike, but bad storms are predicted. Maybe I ride the stationary bike at the hotel tomorrow nite, but I hope Ch & I can ride after the seminar and maybe some late disc golf too.

Dinner with S&C tonite, then take the train to the hotel in the city late. I am open on Friday, hope I can ride. M will come up on Saturday and Sunday S&C and we will go to Plymouth. Big birthday party and some more disc golf! Back to central IL on Sunday nite. I will need a good swim come Monday.

Wednesday 5000 yards - strokework, 96 minutes

3x500 kps
5x100 f,br,ba,f,br
500 p:f,br,ba,f,br
5x100 f,br,ba,f,br
500 p:f,br,ba,f,br
5x100 f,br,ba,f,br
500 k:f,bu,ba,f,bu
10x50 f ~10 s rest ~:38

Pretty slow today. Not much competition. I think the weather has me down. Started with a pretty sore back, but worked it out by the end. The cramped calf from the end of yesterday's bike ride flared up a bit too. I still must ride tomorrow.

Tuesday - no swimming

One hour on the bike instead of swimming. There was lightning in the area, so I skipped the swimming.

Donated the old satellite dish, 2 tuners and a DVR to Goodwill. Nice to have them out of the house.

The basement carpeting is out in the trash. Nice to have that old junk out of the house too.

Hey Comcast!

Are you throttling back my GMail access? Stop it!@

Comcast - service outage

It only took a month after the switch from Insight to Comcast before my service was cutoff. I setup automatic payment via the website, and they claimed I didn't pay my bill. According to the website, there was no balance for me to pay, and yet on the phone system I was told my service was disconnected (without warning) because I had not paid my bill. Does the left byte know what the right byte is doing at Comcast? I think not.

Monday - 5000 yards

3x500 kps
5x400 30 s rest ~5:43 - 5:48
2x500 kp
10x50 10 s rest ~:37 - :39

yesterday, I put in a Carmichael hour on the stationary bike. Maybe I should have ridden outside, the day was so nice, but it is so much easier to get underway indoors, and time was limited.

Should I be planting my seeds yet?

Packer tix

Paid the 2008 Packer tickets invoice today.

Saturday 5000 yards

3x500 kps
10x200 swim @ 30 s rest
500 pull
500 kick
10x50 swim @ 10 s rest

Third Show added for KC in Chi

We knew this would come. 3 nites, 3 shows. Never enough of the King.

Return To Forever

Chick, Al, Stanley and Lenny are touring this summer. Chicago Theater tix on sale next Wednesday. I am thrilled. New music? The web site says "Coming Soon"; not soon enough. Chick's site has video of the first rehearsal - Al kills 'em: http://www.chickcorea.com/player_temp.php

Thursday - 5000 yards

3x500 kps
100 to 350 ladder by 50s
400 kick
400 pull
350 to 100 ladder by 50s

Felt like dirt. Very slow. Not recovered from yesterday's great workout.