It’s been an interesting week (to say the least).

My back has flared up again, making the act of sitting, walking, and lying down rather painful. I have an appointment next Tuesday with my Doctor (who will then refer me to a specialist – another 2 week wait). From what I understand, theres been some scaring on the neural sheath that’s causing pressure. That takes surgery to fix (read: another month of lying on my back).

I finally got around to cutting my hair today. I went to the Fantastic Sam’s in the Valley Mall. I had been there several times before and they’ve always treated me nice… but I found out theres a story to that. I had ridden my motorcycle at one point and was removing my riding gear in anticipation of getting my hair cut. The stylist saw I was removing my chaps and said “Don’t take those off.. I can work around them”. “Riiiiight” was my reply. Apparently she went about 10 shades of red (I was taking off my chaps and didn’t notice).

A few months later, my sister took her husband to the same place because he wanted a hairstyle similar to mine. When she was trying to describe it to them, she mentioned that they did my hair. They remembered me and told her that I was “hot”.

I can live with that.

Oh… and it looks like my ISP may have gotten things corrected on their end finally. They had lost their DNS servers at one point (though they gave me several explanations on the problem and specifically said it wasn’t a damage issue when I asked). It took days for them to bring new ones online (with new IP addresses). They also removed their phone number completely from their website (to keep people from calling in I assume). The only reason I know it was fixed is because we were running a network scanner from work on my ISP (and got the new addresses). They haven’t contacted the users yet (at least not me) to notify them of the changes that need to be made on each users router (so I’m sure theres lots of people who are still down).

I’m thinking this is a bargaining chip for my contract (which comes up again next month).