Friendly Reminder

This Sunday, 30 October 2005, at 10:30 AM i am helping lead the annual Samhain Service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring, located at 10309 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring.

I hope many of you can make it. With the time change, the early hour should be less of an issue than usual for many of you.

This is the annual pagan ceremony honouring those who have died in the prior year. The theme this year is Sailing the Sunless Sea. There will be singing, meditation, poetry, and a participatory ritual allowing each to remember whom they wish. Oh, and there will be Chrysanthemums for those who'd like one. (The blossoms make a lovely tea.)
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Last Day at SDDC

Well, today's my last day here at DOD/USTRANSCOM/SDDC. I've been given my check-out papers, and thought i'd share the last fortune to come out of my lunch here:

Soon you will be sitting on top of the world

May that it be so. I'll be checking out of here in about an hour. On to new things. At least they said i can come back if i'd like, which is nice.

Wireless connection issues

Ok. I'm at a friend's place, and am trying to connect to her Westell wireless router. Verizon DSL is her provider. So far i've been unable to associate with the access point.

I configured the router for WEP, Shared Key, 128-bit encryption, and entered a key. I then set the router to use Key 2 (the one i entered). Key 1 is 256-bit, which my current card/driver does not support.

I then go to my laptop, running a Linksys WPC54G v2 card. I see her SSID in the site survey, channel 10w 100% signal. I click connect, choose 128 Bits, enter the passphrase, set authntication to shared, and click connect. There is another variable, TX Key, and i've tried connecting with ti set to each of the 4 options (1,2,3 ,& 4). Each time i try to connect, i get "No association with Access Point". Setting Authentication to auto, as opposed to shared, makes no difference.

Suggestions? I'd really like to download some docs in my email.