I want to move to “Not In Service” – they have really good bus service. “No Passengers” would also be a good neighborhood. Lots of Metro Trains go there.
But, this morning – I saw a new bus sign.
This bus is parked. The person on the right is the driver – she is heading off to get a coffee. Normal enough behavior. But, exactly what good does a BUS IS BACKING sign do? Especially when it is on the front! Not to mention – the bus is parked.
Went to the asylum directly from work today for a late lunch. Stopped in to check the Old Bat Cave – it is being drywalled today. Still needs paint, floors, a kitchen and a bathroom. Three weeks from tomorrow is Move Day.
Move-wise no actions today. Today was sort of a The Widow Peg chore. I made an appointment for a mammogram. And, what does this have to do with being a widow? Well, mammograms always make me nervous. Very nervous. Waiting for the results. I have had more than a few mammograms that result in a call to “Come back and let us look again”. And, Carlton always kept me as calm as possible. I was supposed to make the appointment back in May. I figure I put it off 5 months. I figure my doctor will yell at me if I don’t go.
Also, there is my trip to Hawai’i. In 2013, I had to beg a change in our tickets because Carlton had a serious recurrence of his cancer. In 2014, I had to get a refund for Carlton’s ticket – a ticket I bought less than a week before he died. SO, I don’t want to have try for a refund on my 2015 ticket – caused by me being treated for cancer discovered at the mammogram. 8:00 AM Sept 11. Not a particularly auspicious date.
Any how – I will not get a ticket to Hawai’i until after I get the all clear from the mammogram folks.
My VPN. When I am out in the wild, I fire up my VPN. If I use the WiFi that my asylum provides – I’ll need to run my VPN all the time. So, I have it set up fire up automatically now. It causes a hiccup here and there. But, seems to me that hacking into the WiFi at an asylum for well off old folks – that sounds like a real good hack target. All those old people shopping online, checking their bank accounts, etc. etc.
Hi Peg,
for the vpn, an elegant tech way would be to have your own router.
The wan side would be connected to the asylum wifi, and the lan side would provide you a private wifi access point.
The router is running its own firewall to protect your devices from the outside.
And if the router runs it’s own vpn client, always connected to your vpn provider, your devices are always protected.
But all of this is a bit tricky. You have to find a router with all of theses functionnalities (dual wifi + vpn client), and if the asylum have a portal for authentication, it can be difficult to maintain the link.
I managed to do all of this things with this tutorial:
http://www.digitalreplica.org/2014/10/pocket-internet-privacy-shield/
But it was not easy ! (have to flash an alternative firmware).
Maybe this kind of router exists “out of the box”… I don’t know…
Have a nice day !