Last night, I had a strange dream.. all I can remember was that there was another one of me walking around all the places where I have a bit of a 'home' feel (my office, my car, and my apartment), telling me that it's all really messy and making me feel bad. Oddly though, each place was messier than it actually is. My car, apart from the trunk, is pretty clean -- several months of not having anyone leaving stuff in it, and my cleaning it a bit every time I use it, has left the interior nearly empty. Hell, even the trunk is a lot emptier than it once was. Yeah, my office is pretty messy, and my apartment, while not as messy as in the dream, could use a good cleaning (with some scrubbing). Still, it's not that bad, and I wonder where that dream came from....

Right now, at work, I'm configuring the 4 new laptops, and I have them all down in the lab, plugged in together. It's an amusing sight, especially with them all next to my big laptop on which I type now. It looks like a mother goose and her little goslings.

Last night, I had insomnia REALLY badly, and went to bed around 4am. On the upside, I got some good stuff done for work, and started on some of the homework.. Still, although I don't feel it now, I'm certain I'll be feeling the lack of sleep after I eat lunch. Hmm.. and I also dimly remember having a conversation with someone, I'm not entirely certain whom, and talking about politics.. that must've been near the end of my awakedness.. If it wasn't a dream, I wonder who the foo it was, if I said anything offensive, and what exactly I did say. Oh well.

Oh, yes, before it got too late, I went through the trouble to bring my network back up, sans kryten, using my wireless AP as the NAT box. It really was pretty simple, although I had to make several phone calls to verizon to get my username, and have them reset my password (they assigned some ungodly random username like vzwhreteg to me, with a similarly random password, and although my OpenBSD box knew it, I didn't). All is good, and amusingly, while my neighborhood has plenty of 802.11b networks, some open, some not, and all kind of flakey through the walls of my apartment, I appear to be the only 802.11g-capable network, at least within earshot of my apartment. Actually, my laptop has never seen an 802.11g network apart from mine yet. I wonder how long it'll take to catch on.. you'd think with the backwards compatability, people would be quicker to upgrade...

I'm thinking about getting a Linksys WSB24, which is a 2.4Ghz signal booster. It should be compatible with my WRT54G, and should make the signal even stronger, increasing both range and reliability. Hmm.