> following up further... checking their dupes and bad messages stats, 
> it seems to have happened back around the 18th of April... that's 
> when the first bad message from my system showed up in their stats... 
> i'm sending areafix and allfix (re)link posts for all the areas i 
> have configured from them... will see what flushes out over the next 
> few days...

 JK> Hmm.. I talked to another fellow who also had to relink his system
 JK> there. Sounds like the murphy guy was having some fun.  I hope you
 JK> are all re-connected now. 

yeah, not quite... some areas are still coming back as not available... i'm
guessing this means that they are not on the 'bone but i don't know how he
handles that aspect to determine when to forward the request
"upstream" to you and bobS for reconnection...

 JK> We had some fun yesterday - my coffee-pot must have shorted out and
 JK> tripped the gfci switch in the kitchen outlet where the coffee-pot
 JK> was plugged in... which is when we found out what else was on that
 JK> particular circuit.. like _half_ the outlets in the computer-room
 JK> which is off the kitchen.  My system was (note past tense) plugged
 JK> into one of those affected.  So poof.. there went the whole circuit
 JK> 'til we found the outlet that had the problem.. nice safety
 JK> feature, but a dog to find sometimes Lol

yep! sounds like someone took the easy way out and passed the wire
"thru" that outlet... it can be remedied rather easily if you can
get the outlet out and move the wires from one side to the other to the
outlet is in parallel instead of in series...

one of the things we've done here is to install our own outlets for the
computers... they are all noticibly different from the normal ones and they
have orange sheathing... when the power goes out, the orange cables are the
ones that we connect to the feed from the generator so that we can power
the important stuff along with the fridges, freezers, heat, TVs and a few
lights ;)

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