I’ve been fighting a battle the last few weeks that made me in turns annoyed, full of self doubt and filled with near rage at inanimate objects. It was, kind of, won today.

I was trying to wire up the offices of my friend’s sheet metal company. I tried wiring scheme after wiring scheme all to no frakkin’ avail. I could NOT get point A to talk to point B. I started to doubt if I even had the skill to put together a simple RJ-45 plug.

Anyone in computers knows that that is genital removing self doubt right there.

So this morning, away from the warehouse over at Two Fat Guys Lab I put together a cable, tested it and it worked. Yes, yes, I still knew how to make those. I relaxed in that comfort. I took it to the site and..nothing..something…nothing.

Then I remembered they were on a funky ISP/DSL provider that required hardcoded DNS/GATEWAY/IPs and bingo! The magic worked!

I swear this job was making me lose it though for a bit. Still don’t know why the previous cabling schema didn’t work though. I need to take a closer look at that building. I think I was getting EF interference from an arc welder or something.

Sorry…just had to vent.