One quote written, one phone call receieved putting me onto a short list for a Request for Quotes. And about to make up a serial cable. Not a bad effort for a morning I would guess. And it is only just 9AM. What I really need to do now is get the modem running so that I can actually get some more testing done. If it does not work my quote might be useless even if they choose me. When I started making up the cable I got out the documentation for the modem. I found all the information I needed – in two different documents. Unfortunately they did not line up. I am sure that the 2nd document is wrong since it describes a cable I do not have. We will see soon though.

I will probably go for a short run soon too. I know – it does take some time out of my work day, but provided I take my phone with me then I really am not too badly off. It takes dedication to keep running whilst talking on the cellphone on hands free speaker phone – something that I have done in the past. You have to be really careful of your breathing though if you do that – if not you are likely to faint. So kids, do not try this at home. Certainly not whilst trying to cross the street dodging traffic 🙂

I am getting some real interest from a couple of my eBay auctions. One for a PAGER RECEIVER and another for some SOLAR CELLS. Both are leftover from an old consulting project and have just been collecting dust. It must have taken me 15 minutes to find the software for the RECEIVER – it was on an old backup and took some time to find it. Actually I found it and did not realise I had found it for another five minutes. Mostly you only need the software to configure the unit, rather than for operational use. This is good since the software runs under DOS!