10 December 2010
About 0900 this morning, the Comcast service tech arrived. As we expected, the noise on the line was negligible. Most people are in school, at work, or sleeping in. He was thorough and checked both the feed line from the node and our drop line. Both were operating at nominal status. They still are at 1647. As more people log on in the evening we expect to see, the familiar service disruption caused, at least in part, by insufficient bandwidth. We now have a software tool we can use to check the signal/noise ratio.
We were told that there were some local cabling/hardware problems that may have been dealt with yesterday. We were both focusing so hard on not attacking or offending the poor tech that neither of us jumped down his throat when he used the offensive “issues.”
Chanukah ended last night at sundown. All the celebratory things have been packed away for next year. We didn’t expect a white Chanukah but we’re a lot more likely to experience one than the Maccabees. Snow happens in Israel but not with any predictable regularity. There is one ski area there, Mt Hermon, with nearly 28 miles of trails. But the Hasmoneans weren’t the type to play in the snow and neither are the ultra-orthodox who live in Israel and the West Bank today.
We have a 36-hour break before the weather becomes arctic in nature. I’m hopeful that the worst of winter will be over by the time we begin spring semester classes. Not at all likely.
Shabbat Shalom.
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