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free from the chains of nausea
Wednesday, October 17 2001
Ouch, was I ever in bad shape today! It was my morning to walk Sally, but I had to have Gretchen do it. She eventually skipped her tutoring gig, mostly just to take care of me. It's different, of course, to care for someone who knowingly inflicts injury on himself, but this fact didn't diminish my need for care. My mid-afternoon my raging appetite broke free from the chains of nausea and I was able to eat cold barley mushroom soup.
Compounding my pain, today was the day that Yahoo, my employer, finally figured out how to connect me to their intranet. Picture me wrapped in a blanket, fearing I would puke, communicating via Yahoo Instant Messenger with someone in Santa Monica as he guided me through the steps of accessing development boxes an entire continent away. He even did the PC Anywhere thing to check something out for himself. Unfortunately, due to the Cisco software I'm using, I had to connect my computer to the cable modem directly and stop working through the Linksys Router, which acts as a firewall and DHCP server. If anyone knows how to get Cisco VPN software to work through a Linksys router, I'd love for you to send me an email. In the meantime, I'm back to running a proxy server on my machine so Gretchen can surf while I'm online.
In the evening, as I recovered and did intermittant work through the VPN, Gretchen and I watched Good Will Hunting on videotape. We stopped the tape at one point and talked about the acting style of Robin Williams. "The only reason he won best supporting actor for his role in this movie was that he had such good writing," Gretchen contended. "Look, he doesn't even try to do a Boston accent," she added. I agreed. Robin Williams is a one trick pony. He has that one Mork and Mindy comic acting style, and it barely works when tasked with realism.
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