Anticipating an early start, I skipped riding this morning. As it turned out, I may as well have ridden because we didn't finally get on the road back to New Orleans until around noon. Around 10 a.m., we shut down the computers and stuffed about six computers, numerous file boxes, and miscellaneous other office stuff into the Volvo, stopped by the house and crammed in some luggage, and clamped the bikes to the roof rack. Of course, it wouldn't all fit. Not nearly. The cat will be spending the night in Jackson tonight, and tomorrow morning after we get a couple of staff members started off at the new home office, we'll drive back to Jackson one more time to pick up the rest of our stuff and say goodbye to Tywana before returning to work.
On the way back to N.O., we stopped at CompUSA to pick up a little Linksys wireless router, about $150 worth of ink cartridges for various printers, and a fax machine. Traffic in Baton Rouge, as usual, was barely moving for the five or six miles after the I-12 / I-10 split, but it finally got going again and we arrived at home around 3:30. Candy headed off to survey some space in the 1555 Poydras building that they had been allocated for temporary office space, and I got to work setting up the DSL modem and wireless router.
The modem installation was a no-brainer, but as I expected, the router installation was a bit more challenging. As it turned out, BellSouth's DSL service wants to use an IP number that conflicts with the default IP number that the Linksys router wants to use. There is no clue that this is the case, of course. Luckily I had immediate access to the Psych/Neuro tech support person who had been down this road before, and with his help we changed the router IP number, set up security, and finally got the thing working. The first time I went to send an e-mail via Eudora and my Tulane account, the BellSouth server wouldn't allow it, even with authentication "on," so I had to change my outgoing SMTP server to BellSouth's. "Just goes to show you, if it ain't one thing, it's something else." Anyway, everything seems to be working now, so the place is more or less ready to go to work tomorrow.
We had been thinking of making the final trip to Jackson and back tonight, but The Wife really wanted to wait until tomorrow, so tomorrow it will be. Instead, we headed down to Magazine and State for a Calzones and Pizza at Reginelli's where I was happy to see a couple of old friends, Lesley Goodell and Lee Egan. Lesley I knew from high school and since she's an avid swimmer and runner and lives in the area, I often run into her. Lee I knew from early grammar school, and saw him once in a while, especially while his daughter and mine were both attending high school at l'académie du sacré coeur, aka Sacred Heart Academy.
Tomorrow I will slip out early for a much-needed ride on the levee before we have to drive back up to Jackson and then back down to New Orleans.
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