{"id":951,"date":"2006-03-10T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=951"},"modified":"2006-03-10T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T17:32:06","slug":"detours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/03\/detours\/","title":{"rendered":"Detours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so nice out today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a nice, productive week. Wednesday morning I was almost to work when I encountered a detour on route 63, the main street of the town I work in. Great. I was late for work because of the increased traffic and I had to hit the backroads that I&#8217;m not familiar with. The rest of the day went like that too, problem after problem at work. I remaind was in a surprisingly good mood through it all, everything that happened was out of my control, why worry\/get annoyed by it?<\/p>\n<p>That night Michael and I headed over to the Roadhouse Grille in Skippack for their wine and cheese tasting. They do this every Wednesday night and we&#8217;d never gone to one. I was happy we did! The wines were excellent, the cheeses were wonderful and strong. After the wine and cheese we had a light dinner and headed home around 9PM. It turned out to be a very nice, relaxing evening.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we learned some good news from Verizon (our telephone company). Michael was out taking a walk and apparently stopped to chat for a moment with the Verizon folks working on the phonelines. He asked what they were doing. &#8220;Installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/FiosForHome\/channels\/Fios\/HighSpeedInternetForHome.asp\">Verizon FiOS<\/a>,&#8221; they said. OMG FIBER AT MY HOUSE! Currently we have DCA.net DSL, and pay a reasonable amount for the perks of being able to run servers and have several static IPs. But lately we&#8217;ve moved a lot off our connection, we&#8217;re no longer running a mail server there, most of the websites have been moved off, and going back to a strictly residential internet connection would not be terrible. The cheapest FiOS business line with a static IP is $100\/month, which is pricey but might be worth it if they don&#8217;t block ports. We&#8217;ll see when it&#8217;s actually installed and starts being offered.<\/p>\n<p>On my way to work this morning I encountered a detour, guess which road? Route 63. This was far from the other detour I encountered on Wednesday and completely unrelated, but it was funny that it was the same road making me late for work. I ended up feeling lost on all sorts of crazy back roads with lots of fellow commuters. Just when I started looking for a place to pull over so I could call my boss and tell her I&#8217;d be late I popped out in a familiar place and was able to get to work only 10 mintues late. My boss laughed when I told her what happened. Damn that route 63!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the plan is this evening, I sorta want to stay in, but I sorta want to see people too. We had hoped that our DVDs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/bleakhouse\/index.html\">Bleak House<\/a> would be here by now and we could have that for movienight, but apparently the demand for it has overwhelmed WGBH and our copy won&#8217;t ship until March 27th. Eep! Still, I asked Michael to swing by <a href=\"http:\/\/hatbev.com\/\">Hatboro Beverage<\/a> to grab me a case of Lindemans Peche Lambic for tonight, with the excuse that I &#8220;need to try out my new lambic glasses&#8221; that I picked up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/beeryard.com\/\">Beer Yard<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have solid plans for the weekend either, but the weather has been beautiful so Michael and I might find some place to do some hiking. I&#8217;d love to open up <a href=\"http:\/\/shaman.princessleia.com\/?cat=7\">The Magic Room<\/a> too and spend some time up there this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Mmm happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so nice out today. I&#8217;ve had a nice, productive week. Wednesday morning I was almost to work when I encountered a detour on route 63, the main street of the town I work in. Great. 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