Congratulations to my wonderful, beautiful, incredibly intelligent wife on the successful defense of her dissertation.

Make sure you start calling her DOCTOR!

Well, it’s finally time. In the next couple of weeks I plan on scrapping the old K62 450 that’s been acting as my router and building a new router. The question is…what OS? Currently I’m using FreeBSD, and while I’m very happy with the performance, I’d wouldn’t mind something a little easier to use. Does anyone know of any good tutorials on setting up Redhat or Ubuntu or some other flavor as a NAT enabled router?

Now before you go asking…”Why not just buy a Linksys router or something?” I’ll tell you.
There are 2 reasons.
#1 - Last time I checked there’s a limit to how many port forwarding rules and stuff that you can set up. My current router is already using more than those allow for.

#2 - By using this type of system I actually learn something in the process.

I have an old document a friend did for setting up FreeBSD 4 (which I’ll have to hack through for the current version).

This has been bugging me for a while, so I think it’s about time I got it out. Let’s talk about daycare. G and I looked at 3 places that took infants. Our first choice had no openings until June (when Izzy will start going for 2 days a week), our 2nd choice is where he currently goes, and our third choice while in Hyde Park, might as well have been run out of a trailer from the impression I got.

In case you didn’t know, daycare is expensive. As a result of it being so expensive I have some expectations.
#1 - Consistent care. I don’t like the fact that each week there seems to be at least one new person watching over Izzy. It was bad enough that the 2 primary people in charge of his care are each part time. One takes the morning shift and one takes the afternoon. Oh yeah…and please don’t take care of my kid while you’re sick.

#2 - Let the kid sleep. I expect them to allow my son to sleep when he needs it. When he’s home, we have no problem getting him to take 3 naps throughout the day. Somehow they only get one. This always makes for a fun evening.

#3- Follow directions. When we ask you NOT to heat his bottles, we’d appreciate you so as we ask.

#4- Let him learn. When Izzy started daycare he was more than happy to hold his bottle when being fed. Apparently they don’t let him do this, and now he has no interest in doing so.

#5 - How about some notice? Telling us at 4:30pm one day that our son can’t come to school the next day because his “blue sheet” (documentation tha he’s got his shots) has expired is ridiculous. (Especially when it hasn’t)

I’m sure this list will get longer….but I might as well let it go for now.