Big news today...US West finally hooked up our second phone line. No more fighting over phone lines for the modem! I've got the new phone line plugged into Janelane (my workstation) for the time being, but I plan on seeing if I can set up a masquerade server on Delenn (the converted P2/233 server that right now is our central MP3 storage system), maybe this weekend. I only have a 33.6 external modem though; if Webb's dialups will support 56K, that would be a good investment. (Of course, what I really wish for is high-speed access, but US West says our lines aren't good enough for DSL--I think we're too far away from the switch--and Optel Cable doesn't offer cable modems. Botheration.)

I tore apart the guts of icq-transport today, to eliminate the separate "user" and "session" data structures and create a single "connection" data structure representing an active connection. It took me most of the afternoon, and I didn't have time to test it. Particularly not with Pamela ICQ'ing me to tell me about the thunderstorms out by our home....

In other respects, the transport is functioning quite well; TSBandit's nasty race condition (where the transport would try to start subscribing to an ICQ user before it had finished logging in) has been squashed, and pgmillard reports that it's working better, too.

I called up the broker today, as the papers that were supposed to be in the mail still haven't arrived. And, this evening, I open up the mailbox and find the usual Tuesday ad flyers and a bill from Public Service...but still no brokerage papers. I think he's just gonna have to fax them to the office; I'll have to stand hovering over the 9th floor fax while he puts 'em through. At the same time, maybe he can figure out why the [REDACTED] I didn't get them in the mail; I hope it's nothing serious. It might be wise to wait for the stock price to recover a bit, too.

Later: Wow! A logo! I don't know what the mouse is supposed to mean, but somehow, it appeals to me...both Pamela and I have Boyds mice perched on our monitors, peeking down as if they're looking at what's on the screen. (She has Gouda and Cheddar atop hers, I got the two newer ones, Colby and Port.)