Breakfast in America (Part Deux)

MrGrumpy was awake quite early (no surprise, could be the jet lag), but was up at 5:45 and at work in time for a conf call that did not happen (MrAB still on vacation) If MrGrumpy had checked MrAB's OutOfOffice reply he would have known. At least he was in work on time, so he just got on with the rest of his day.

He managed to call Verizon as the LTE was still not working on his iPad, it seems that the payment did not automatically go through, they retried and it worked fine. After a few minutes the iPad was now 4G enabled (quick speed test showed 20Mbit download and 12Mbit upload - pretty quick for mobile broadband - on his iPhone 3G generally gets 0.5Mbit on a good day).

Yesterdays post from the DMV was MrGrumpy's driving licence, so now he has a valid ID, pity it only lasts until his passport expires. He will have to get a replacement next March. (Generally they last for 4 years).

The rest of the day went quickly, MrGrumpy was invited to dinner with the sales team, several people were in town and it was a good opportunity for a social chat.

When MrGrumpy got home, he found somebody had already put out the garbage / recycle bins, that was handy and saved him doing it. He collected up a few empty bottles (well about 26) and put them along with the various plastic and card he has been collecting, into the recycle bin. As it was gone 11pm he was trying hard not to make too much noise with the bottles.

The internet was still down, but strangely he was able to use FaceTime to chat with LittleMissNaughty. He assumes the DNS lookup is failing, still seems strange that FT worked, maybe just using a cached network address.