Interfaced - the trails of the computer age

Don't you /hate/ it when something happens that cuts you off from the net without warning?
Over the weekend, first - the graphics card in my machine started overheating and crashing my comp. Okay. I'm down 'til Monday. Monday, we get a new card, install it and get it working.
THEN, some asshole takes out a power-line down the road a ways, and power's out until three in the @#$&! morning. *sigh* Okay. Get that straightened out - and discover, come morning, that the power-surges have knocked out the cable modem. *grump*
Okay, fine - get that replaced and working and put back together.

Then we discover, after a bit more moving of things, that Banshee's basically bitten it. *sigh* Okay - move Merroune over and de-commission Banshee (something we'd been planning on doing anyway, ever since Scarlet went up to handle the routing and fire-wall duties...) and pack her up and put her away. And then we find that the UPS that Banshee was supposedly plugged into was TU. o.O!!

Oii.. Well, a few good things /did/ come of all this. First, Andi managed to get the laser printer up and running - a thing that had been tried before and given up on in disgust. Second, I'm running with the new graphics card - and /hopefully/ - there will be no more weird crashes.

Other good news - I /finally/ got the bloody acceptance letter from PCC. I'm in - now all I have to do is go down and take their bloody placement test to see how far behind I am. *grump* Gonna be interesting...

I have the backlog from hell to link and upload - and /scan/ - and haven't got to it yet. *sigh* damnit, I have too #@$% many projects..