Wow I did not expect that snow.  Perhaps I should have, given how much time I spend watching the news and reading the newspaper.  I think I was in denial or something.  It effectively ruined my weekend though;  I ain’t going out in that crap.

Friday the Martins came over and entertained us for the evening.  We picked up a Waldo pizza and tore that up, then played a few good rounds of Rock Band.  I must say the new disco light adds mightily to the ambiance of the “stage.”  After that we played random other games for a bit, then sat at the table for some 10 point pitch.  After the Martin’s left I returned to the Rock Band room and played online with Ed for a short bit.  I mostly just wanted to try out the online play.  It didn’t go too well, we only got through a few songs.  I kept getting disconnected from my wireless network, which just jacked everything up.

Saturday I woke up with no goal in mind other than fixing my sub-par wireless connection.  Like most people, I had a spare wireless router in the closet in case my production one ever failed unexpectly, so I broke it out to see what my options were.  I’d messed with WDS in the past, but found it flaky at best and never got it working just right.  After some quick research, I decided to try a Repeater Bridge setup this time.  This is a new feature in the router firmware I use and overcomes a few limitations of WDS mode, namely bandwidth and security.  Unfortunately I didn’t do quite enough research, and ended up wasting my entire day trying to get everything up and running.  I blame their documentation myself;  It’s kind of sketchy and from doing some Google searches I think lots of people run into the same exact problems I was having.  Just as I was about to call it a day, I finally decided to quit reading and just look at the pictures.  Hey, it worked in school, why not at home.  Sure enough, I was up and running about 20 minutes later.  All’s well that ends well I suppose.  To test out the new setup I played a few rounds of Guitar Hero with my co-worker Mike, and sure enough everything stayed connected flawlessly.  Unfortunately I suffered a pretty good drubbing in the game itself, but my excuse is I don’t play GH that much.

Sunday we didn’t do a whole lot.  Let’s see…  A trip to Costco took up the better part of the afternoon.  We needed to do a little shopping there, but unfortunately we forgot it was both coupon expiration day AND free sample day.  That place was an absolute zoo.  Since the checkout was so long, we spent a few hours strolling around picking up unneeded (but really cool) items.  Oh well, what’s a trip to Costco without a few impulse buys.  After that, we sat around the house reading books for a few hours, made some chili for dinner, watched Balls of Fury for the tenth time…  And that was about the whole of Sunday.  Guess I should be rested up for the week now.