I woke up. No phone today. It was very quiet. What time is it? The alarm is flashing 7:17. hmm.

It's actually 9:30am. There must have been a blackout, and the power came back on at 2:13.

I left my machine running Maxtor diagnostics last night, now I'll need to run it again because I didn't see the results.

I booted everything back up, but no network traffic would work. I could ping, but I couldn't do dns/irc/email. Hmm, what's going on. It took me a little while to remember the broken firewall (Kerio) on the stupid windows machine with my ISDN card in it, because it refuses to work in linux. I disabled the firewall, woo, everything works.

The Maxtor diagnostic finished, claims the disk is ok. I've started running SpinRite on the disk now, it was saying 53 hours to run, which I could have waited, but then my brother came in with a DVD he wants copied. I changed SpinRite to just doing a read test, 2 1/2 hours left on that now.

Now I'm watching Robot Wars again. Tivo filled up and stopped recording things.

Oh yeah, at some point yesterday, I found my dud DVD that I couldn't format in the drive, and it has somewhat written. DiscJuggler must have written the TOC first, because the menu worked in a software DVD player. I tried to pick the last episode (which I knew wouldn't work, it isn;t on the DVD) and the player hung.

I tried putting the DVD in my crappy DVD player, in case it worked anyway, because it's not burned with Nero, but no such luck.

Someone told me there's a computer fair on today. I'm about to check. I need to get some prices, and maybe some more DVDRs