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I’m back in Mpls after a few days in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The trip went well but the drive was really long. I went to Door County to install some equipment in the office space we’re temporarily using. I setup a PC, vonage telephone, wireless AP, and a printer and I was done. Essentially, I spent approx 12 hours in a vehicle for 2 hours of actual work.

I did get to see my friend Dave on Sunday night when I got into town. We visited the local watering hole and hung out for a bit. It was nice and quiet (it was Sunday after all) and the bartender kept playing fantastic music (Phish, Sublime, Marley, Chili Peppers). After hearing the fourth good song in a row, I just about asked her out…but then I remembered that I’m me…and me doesn’t do that.

I’m back at work today and actually being productive. We’re finally getting a DS1 (T1) installed next week so I had a conf call with our T1 vendor and PBX vendor to make sure everything is cosher. I’m so pumped about getting a decent connection in here @ work…this 256k DSL is killing me! I’m also anxious to see how well our telephony works. The DS1 is a “converged” T1 meaning voice traffic flows over the data pipe instead of a dedicated 64k channel. The voice service is billed according to the number of simultaneous G.711 calls. All the equipment is Cisco so I’m sure it’s using SCCP. This is a nice solution since you get a full T1 when no one is on the phone and the T1 can support 31 simultaneous calls…which means each voice call requires approx 48k of bandwidth.

ok, enough nerd-talk…i’m out!