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It’s here.

Home in Illinois again. (I guess Illinois is home now.)

It’s late. I’m tired. Adding picture posts from the last few days.

I spent all day today either on the 74 bus, on the 194 bus, on a Southwest plane, or walking quickly to catch one of those three things.

I sat on the wrong side of the plane to see Mt. Rainier clearly, but I did get another faraway shot of it on Monday.

Taken on Monday, January 19th at 4:36 PM, while on the ferry from Bainbridge Island (and Churchmouse Yarns) back to Seattle.

Taken on First Day, January 18th after the 9:30 AM Unprogrammed Silent Worship at University Friends Meeting, but before the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Worship at University Baptist Church.

The photo is funnier if you know some basic facts about the Quakers.

The missing merchandise?

Mount Rainier at sunset.

Taken in Woodinville, WA on 1/17/2009 at 4:34 PM.

The famous Pink Elephant Car Wash, the first automated car wash.

Taken from a Duck in Seattle on 1/16/2009 at 3:33 PM.

1. Traveling across the country throws your entire time off — but only just enough so that you feel weird, and not enough so that you can legitimately whine about it.
2. When your sense of time is off, you forget to do things — like call your father on his birthday. Happy Birthday, Dad!
3. You also forget to blog.

So what did I do on the 15th? I worked and worked and studied and fixed a router connection. Didn’t go outside at all. :-(

For the knowledge of those on the internet: if you have a broadband connection that doesn’t stay connected all the time, the problem is probably with one of the settings on your router. Check your “MTU” setting. If it is at 1500, change it down to 1400 and restart the router.

In this specific situation, I needed to modify the MTU setting on a Airport Express remotely. To do this:

1. On a Mac, open up the Terminal application. (If you can’t find this, open Finder and use the search box to search for “Terminal”.)
2. In the new Terminal window that popped up, type: sudo ifconfig en1 mtu 1400
3. Enter your password when prompted.
4. That’s it! You’re done! If performance is still bad, repeat the above commands with the number 1300 instead of 1400.

Blurry picture of the Space Needle and downtown Seattle’s light pollution as seen from the sundial at Gas Works Park.

Taken at 10 PM PST on 1/14/2009.