Cheers Dylan, that's just what I needed, it's rather wet and windy here today, have a good one everyone.

I'm here. Why can't I sleep on Sunday nights anymore?

Mornin'.

Sunny and 32 now - high of 45 this afternoon.

Mrs Web has the day off (bank closed for MLK) so she's enjoying a sleep in. I came on out to the office so I wouldn't bother her.

We have our tax accountant appointment today at 1:00pm. I think I just need to print out the profit/loss reports on both businesses and then I should be ready to go. We were finally able to close all the books on my mother-in-law's estate stuff so after this tax season, we will be done with her stuff.

Bring on the Monday.

oh hello.
I'd normally have to go to my 2nd job this evening, but even that department keeps bankers hours.
So they want me to come in tomorrow instead.

Web - your accountant must like you. You are so organized and you know what is going on with your numbers and where they belong.

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

It's sunny and cold here, but anythings better than last week!

I got up, got my hair cut, now I'm gonna wait on the porch for the UPS man to get here

Oh, how I love the UPS man (in a non-sexual, totally platonic manner of course).

totally keeping fingers crossed!

good luck, mz! let us know what you find out.

good luck mz!

thanks mema. I think its gonna be a sushi night.

Lucky me... if I remember the schedule correctly, I'm on-call this week.

There is very little we can do about mass calling events in progress. In preparation for this event, all of the carriers have been trucking in auxillary cell sites and attempting to augment capacity where possible. About the only other adjustment that can be made on the fly is to restrict certain circuits or bandwidth to only carry traffic in one direction. The problem with this event is that we have utterly no idea of the actual scope of it. Estimates are that there will be somewhere between 1.2 and 5 million extra people in the 7 square miles that is the DC area tomorrow. That's a lot of text messages, phone calls, and picture mails all in one place.

On the up side, the telecommunications industry as a whole has a lot of protections in place for when these events occur. We learned a LOT from the first mass calling event in telecom history... the day JFK was shot. We have made it much more difficult to crash the national phone system.

The big 3 carriers will likely experience blocking, but not really any equipment crashes. Some of the smaller carriers may not be so lucky. I know of one phone company that was caught completely flat footed by every American Idol calling event for two solid months. They really had no idea why all of their switches were crashing at the same time 2 nights a week for 8 consecutive weeks. I couldn't tell you if they have an idea of what might happen to them tomorrow, but I bet I will hear pretty quick.