Today = Hardware Failure Day

Today… in a word…. sucked. Not only did we get dumped on by a blizzard, causing me to be home-bound for the day, two pieces of expensive hardware died.
My main switch drops all connections about once every 10 – 20 minutes. I temporary replaced it with my Netgear 24 port monster. I bought a gigabit replacement for it. I’ve wanted to upgrade to gigabit for a while, and this gives me an excuse, but I really wasn’t planning on the expense.
Not only that, my AirPort Extreme (which I use as a NAS and DHCP/DNS server) decided to follow in the switch’s footsteps. Luckily I don’t use it as a router, so haven’t been without internet. But I had to replace it, so I decided to go with a 1TB Time Capsule.
I was planning on buying a new MacBook Pro for when I transfer to RIT but now I’m not so sure that’s going to happen (or, at least it won’t be what I was planning on).

In addition, apparently our furnace is on the fritz. Right before Christmas. Perfect.