With great apologies to my loyal audience, my blog has been inaccessible via the internet for week and a bit.  Relative to technology, I have learned over the years, never change anything.

My home computing infrastructure is extremely complex and fully undocumented.  This is something I probably would not recommend for organizations with some desire for stability, but hey, for me on my own, I will figure it out.

And so it begins

Last week on remembrance day I improved the speed and capability of a networked multi-media receiver and in doing so disabled my entire local area network.  Change is good – hmmm!

Trouble shooting through the long weekend including hardware purchases (improvements all) I actually improved things even further and fixed it all.

NOT!

Off to the Wedding

Thinking all was repaired I flew off (literally) to my favorite son’s wedding (also our only son) and booked into a suite with my daughter, son-in law, wife and two grandchildren.

While being in a hotel suite with a baby and a toddler can create interesting moments for shy retiring grand parents, like my wife and I, a lot of fun interactions with the children ensued.

We even shared child care duties with our son (he’s preparing for post marriage child care duties) while the parents went out and partied.

While away, I discovered although I could access my web server without difficulty from my own LAN, not so when on another network.  So musings was offline for a week.

Of course being away I could not trouble shoot the problem.  I fixed it this morning when again physically present and able to coax the infrastructure with sweet talk (and contrary to popular believe I do actually know what I am doing).

Coming back

Our daughter booked the same return flight as us so we could enjoy more time with the grandchildren.  Oh joy.

Actually, it was a joy and the real pleasure came with the fact the baby sitting behind us (belonging to someone else) made more noise the whole flight than both our angelic grand children put together.