I’ve started playing that bass a bit. I picked up an amp, tuner, new strings and a strap yesterday at Guitar Center, and then I downloaded several tabs from MXTabs. It’s pretty fun, but as I’ve only been playing for a couple of days now I can’t play very many songs, but I do have down Zombie and Something in the Way. Some things are much less complex than I thought, others are more.

Last night Mike and I were moving some more stuff of his. The only thing that’s really left at his mom’s place is his longboard. The rest is going to be donated, or thrown away. While we were there I picked up his bass guitar and started fiddling with it. I think it would be cool to learn bass. I spent some time cleaning it, and trying to tune it, which Mike finished because he can do it in about 2 minutes.

It’s now time to write about some of the things I was talking about last night. The VPN Chianti thing was really the thing keeping me busy all week. Mike and others can attest to the fact I had more than one bad day. It’s all mostly due to the fact that their (Netscreen’s) documentation isn’t all that great and it wasn’t very clear in most cases. Combine that with the fact that we’re doing something a little non-standard, and you’ve got a volitale situation on your hands.

I’ve come to a point of difficulty. The problem being that I’d like to share files between my Mac OS X and Linux (i.e., Nautilus) desktops. Unfortunately, I don’t really find anything that’s particularly designed for this kind of thing. That isn’t to say that there aren’t file sharing options, but none of them are ideal. AppleShare Pro: Linux to Mac is easy, but there’s no Mac to Linux. Con: Doesn’t handle UNIX attributes/permissions

Well, after all of the hastle with Cox I’m now finally online. They sent me a box today too, which is sitting outside that I haven’t opened yet. I wonder if it’s another cable modem. That would be funny, unless I got charged for it, then I wouldn’t enjoy it. If it is another modem though, and I don’t have any extra charge for it then I’ll be like my dad who has two, and I can have another computer on with a real IP.