What a HellishTwo Days

OMG. Have I had a shitty two days. Where do I begin? OK... for some reason I have been without cable and cable internet for two days. Besides net withdrawls (I never realized how bad I have it until its taken away without any planning) I simply could do very little work. Why no cable? Because some stupid Shaw employee sent a "disconnection work order" TO THE WRONG HOUSE! So I was physically disconnected. Curse you minimum wage idiot from hell.

An "emergency repairman" was dispatched and I just got reconnected and now back online. But in the meantime I lost out on a pathetic hockey game, and 2 days of work. And Shaw doesn't seem to want to atleast credit me anything (like a free digital movie or something) for the trouble they caused which had nothing to do with me. Grrrrrrrrr.

So, that was bad enough. Today I found out I will not get my car back until next week. Why? Because some f*cking moron at the Chevy wharehouse sent the wrong damn sensor and they cannot put my tranny back in until they get it, which won't be until Monday. So I will be couped up here all damn weekend with no way to leave the nest. Guess I will atleast make up for lost work time. *sigh*

Decided to check out my options with the SEP program. Sounds like it won't work for me as I am "to far ahead" in a lot of things, and can not do some of the paper pushing things (like a market survey about my product when I am trying to keep it hush hush). Typical government agency. They have good people that have to follow dumb rules. I went in with over 200 pages of market research , business plan etc which is BETTER than what is required. Yet it doesn't matter. And they wonder why many people loath government programs.

Am I finished yet? Nope. For some reason after updating with Windows Update I lost my quick launch bar with no indication why. When I try to relauch it I get a simple error of "Cannot create toolbar.". Why not? Nice f*cking error.

There is some hope. While awaiting Internet access I spent a great deal of time reading MSDN articles I have on CD and found a better way to deal with packet filtering in XP/2000 with some modifications and a rewrite of my driver. I am now taking it UNDER the TCP stack and installing it as a NDIS driver. Only bad thing is I have to rewrite it. But I guess thats ok. I want to be able to filter icmp and IP itself (for things like IPSec filtering), and this is the best way of going about it. Long roads ahead as I rewrite iplinks now. *sigh*

Lets hope next week is better. If any of you feel like visiting me this weekend to cheer me up, bring a DVD and lets party!