My net access has sucked all day at work. When I got here it wasn’t running at all – the DNS was down, something I deduced myself by successfully reaching imdb.com and a couple of other places but not getting anywhere useful. I was also able to ssh, so I got to use Lynx and goof off on LambdaMOO a bit. The rest came up around 10:00. I did fine for a couple of hours, and I was able to get all caught up on e-mail. Just after lunch, though, it went kaboom again. It works a little bit – if I reload a page 75 times, I can get it to process. Leaving comments on LiveJournal isn’t working at all, which means I might as well not catch up on the 300 messages I have to catch up on because I won’t be able to leave any comments. I’m trying to upload a couple of images to one of my Photobucket accounts but that’s being balky too.
Tonight is the quarterly staff meeting for my agency, which is in Silver Spring at the . This means I have to get from 6:00 on a clock to 12:00 on a clock (the clock being the DC beltway), which is going to be very tough; I am routinely late for these meetings but there’s nothing I can do about it. I earn three hours of vacation just for showing up, though. My client left early today so technically I can leave whenever I want…but I am not actually too inclined to get to the meeting on time because it will be really boring. I won’t get home until about 9:30, ugh. That’s a long day.