[Mishmash] On my way to the hospital

[Hugh Gigante]

Between the two of you we'll all be busy sending good thoughts and wishes.

Keep well.

Hugh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net 
> [mailto:mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net] On Behalf Of Fred Atkinson
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:36 AM
> To: Mishmash
> Subject: [Mishmash] On my way to the hospital
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
>     Also, I'm on my way to the hospital this morning.  I have 
> having arthroscopic knee surgery.  There appears to be a very 
> small, loose object in my left knee that is getting caught 
> between the two bones (they think it is a loose piece of 
> calcified cartilage).  It causes my knee to buckle and I have 
> to shift all my weight to my right leg to keep myself 
> vertical.  It has never caused me to fall.  I guess all that 
> Tae Kwon Do training gave me that ability.
> 
>      I should be home by about five PM at the latest.  Will 
> try to let you know how well it went.  I'm going to be home 
> bound for three days afterwards.
> 
>     To that end, my cablemodem has been down since Thursday.  
> The cablemodem technician finally came over yesterday morning 
> and found that I had too many splitters up under the house.  
> He removed them and we got a good level.
> 
>     However, I'm still having trouble with the cablemodem.  I 
> woke up this morning to discover that my router had no IP 
> address from the cablemodem provider.  I tried rebooting the 
> router, but still didn't have any IP address.  So I rebooted 
> the cablemodem and miraculously the router gained an IP 
> address from Mediacom.  So I'm back up.
> 
>     That's bad because I have Internet telephone service at 
> home.  If I loose that IP address, I will not be able to 
> receive telephone calls until I reboot the cablemodem again.  
> If I am not aware of it, I won't be able to receive calls.  
> If it goes down altogether, I will not be able to make or 
> receive calls.  Since I won't be able to drive either, that's 
> a big problem.
> 
>     I called Mediacom about it.  They are sending someone 
> back here tomorrow morning.
> 
>     I've had Cisco look that router over.  They can't find 
> anything wrong with it.  But I'm also experiencing slow throughput.
> 
>     Maybe they'll swap out the cablemodem unit itself and see 
> if the problem clears.
> 
>     Regards,
> 
> 
> 
>                                                             Fred
> 
> 
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