Lost a Phone Line and a Couple Teeth

Some changes over the last few weeks:

• First, we finally ditched the land-line and have gone cell only. You do have our cell numbers, right? So far so good, but had the usual headaches with rebates, etc. with Cingular. Eventually though, they did get everything fixed. The trick is to choose "cancel my account" on the customer service voice menu apparently.
  
• Second, got two of my wisdom teeth pulled. Had the gereral anesthetic, and that worked exactly as advertised. Highly recommended for all medical/dental procedures. I was surprisingly sore and swollen 9 days later though. Finally feeling halfway decent today. I guess this is why you shouldn't put wisdom teeth extraction off until your 30's. Had really good pain drugs though, Darvocet is cool...
  
• Third, the home server, techno, had another drive die. I took the opportunity to replace the 4 disk raid 5 array with two 250GB drives doing raid 1. Also upgraded to Scientific Linux 4. The previous drives were bargin basement samsung 60GB drives that were at least 5 years old. The drive that failed ironically enough turned out to be the 1 replacement Western Digital drive I had installed about three years ago. I must say I'm still pretty happy with my backups via external usb 160GB drive and rsync. I suppose I should do a write-up on that one of these days.