So it turned out I didn't have to return my linksys box, but and this is funny : it doesn't work on winblows, surprise, it doesn't work on macos, whee, but it does work with the drivers in linux 2.4.5+! yay, so I am happy now :) I sent a note back to linksys support saying "the linksys router works well with the OS you do not support, you might want to make a note of that" hehe

had a barium xray test last wednesday, man, that' some gross stuff, but oh well, 't was only 45 minutes and at first glance I guess it looked like everything is ok internally so that's good, well, I haven't heard the detaills yet, but at least they didn't go "uh oh" right there and then

work is going reasonably well we re (mostly) getting stuff done, there still is shitloads to do, and it's time for some yelling at some people. There is a lot of stuff up in the air right now too, and I am kind of anxious to find out what is going to happen I guess. Nothing bad or so, just changes :)