The day really started out nice.

Got up just after 5, took some nice quiet time, got started working just after 6, got out of here around 9 and skied for an hour and a half - it was a beautiful day.

Here's Ethel, poised between Engineer Mountain on the right and That Mountain That Looks Sorta Like A Mirror Image Of Engineer Mountain, But Not Exactly, on the left:

          

It was a nice morning of skiing - we got back to the condo and got back to work.

And then - it happened.

Some folks showed up to help us get the router in our condo configured. There was a problem, since we have the SpeedStream modem, and the Linksys ATA router for the phone, and our Belkin wireless router - when we ran in a secure configuration, I couldn't get my VPN to work.

So they fixed that - got the phone to work, got the wireless protocol up, everything hunky-dory.

Except - my VPN wouldn't work.

And it still won't work. I've now tried it going through the air card, and I've even installed my VPN on another laptop to see if it would work - nothing doing.

I'm about to head down to Durango to see if it works there, at some wireless hot spot - if it does, then I'm gonna...I'm gonna...well, there's really nothing that I can do, is there? Except give up and admit that I going to have to

a) quit work, since I can't work remotely. This will mean that we'll lose the house in New River - well, since they haven't finished the pool, that's not big loss. Silas can move in with his brother or his cousins and finish school

OR

b) stop the purchase of the condo, since I can't work remotely.

I'm sure that there are other options - right now, though, I don't know what they are.

(UPDATE - thanks to a compentent useradmin at GoDaddy, I'm now back online via my VPN, so we can go ahead and buy the condo AND I can keep my job in Scottsdale. Thanks, Trudy!)