Penny 4 Your Thoughts

Just some blithering…

It’s Winter, and I head North again without my parrot. We leave for an education focus group in Bangor.

And it’s cold in Auburn…must be cold in Bangor, too, eh?

So we get there, and the rest of our crew is sitting in their car, the lone car in the parking lot. Why aren’t they inside setting up? Hmmmm. I guess there’s a problem. And it’s cold.

Good guess…we call the scheduler, and she calls the contact person. And we wait…and it’s cold.

Another car pulls in…it’s a couple of folks who will be in the workshop, and they will wait, too. And it’s cold.

Another car pulls in…could it be? The occupant gets out…she looks familiar…Yes! It’s a person who works at the site…seems the contact person was sick, and it was a good day to come in late. Oops, she forgot that there was a group coming in to use the facility. Oh, well. We enter the facility, It is feeling a little warmer. Ahhhh.

We rush to set up and everything is OK. Folks are happy to be here and the discussion is going well. Then the wireless craps out. No web connection. But it’s not cold.

We try all the simple things, and we cannot get the network to stay back up again. The provider is called and states that they can see all the way to our router. So the problem is at our end. We try some more complex things. No go.

Finally, as our participants are being given a tour of the facility, we set up our own network with an Airport Extreme. It works and it’s not cold. So now it’s time for lunch.