When the unexpected happens…

Smile, laugh, frown, even cringe… but don’t run.

Good day until I tried to be smart. My new computer doesn’t want to use my ATA controller so I can use 8 IDEs at the same time. Through testing I found out it was most likely due to the drive enumeration. The ATA addon wants to start numbering at 0… which is fine the the motherboard doesn’t mind being offset by 4… but my new motherboard is a little stubborn. So… me being too smart for my own good figured I might be able to fix it with a bios update. Well, there was this pesky problem with the computer posting but not booting with the ATA card installed. So (and this is were I go a little overboard) I disabled the onboard IDE controller and the SATA controllers (trying to protect them from possible foolishness) and booted from my USB flash drive. The reprogramming went fine, but when I renenabled all my controllers my onboard IDE refused to detect anything. I fought with it for almost 2 hours. Tried many combinations of controllers… reinstalled drivers… flashed the system bios 3 times… fragged the nvram and cmos checksum more times than is healthy… In the end all I had to do was pull the backup battery for 10 minutes to let the capacitors drain. Apparently there are settings that survive a complete wipe of the bios. That makes me angry.

2 midterms this week that I don’t feel like preparing for. I should for the one I have tomorrow since I don’t really know most of whats going on… but I have a feeling most of the class is with me and I’ll end up above the curve anyway.

Mike, no matter which way the wind blows, you will be ok. I know is sucks, and probably hurts, but you’ll be good in the end. Call on me when ever you need or want. My phone is always on and I’ll always answer when you call.

Good night… sweet dreams… ahh hell… I just need sleep.

“At the very least, I can make you very uncomfortable.”

And I shall return in kind… Gross sexual innuendo for everyone…? Or not.

I have apparently failed to realize the power of the gossip network in the male community… actually I failed to understand that one even existed. Yesterday on my way home from class, I was stopped by one of my old roomates from freshmen year. We had a “quaint” conversation about our respective lives and traded puns, then we got to our classes. He ended up getting out of me (not like it was akin to pulling teeth) that I had 2 classes with one of our previous suite mates whom I was thoroughly convinced was avoiding me at all cost (although I wasn’t really sure why).

Today, that person decided he wanted to talk to me. Nothing ground breaking or devastating, just your “elevator” chat that you would expect from someone who doesn’t want you to think they don’t like you… Of course I have a habbit of over analyzing… but common! What guy actually spreads gossip?

Last night was very fun. Keith and I went wall climbing at the ARC, had dinner at Mirror Lake and watch Final Fantasy. I wasn’t really into the story line, but the CG was phenomenal. Closest animation to real life I have ever seen.

I wanted to do homework tonight, but other things happened. Meh. Guess I’ll have to do it Sunday instead since I have to work tomorrow.

“Breathe deep… you’ll need it.”

I had the most amazing weekend… and probably the best Easter I’ve had in a very long time. The Gannon’s really are my second family.

I’m praying for a friend of mine… I’d like those of you who pray to aswell. She sent me a message that we very disturbing yesterday and I haven’t been able to get in touch with her.

And now for my wisdom to be spoken around the world… “You just don’t get it do you?” Mull that over for a while. Someone might figure it out… maybe it will even the right person… doubtful.

13-Apr-2006

So… apparently I flirt even when I don’t want to. Not interested in dating atm so I’m avoiding generating interest, and yet I have 2 women who are (as far as I can tell) definitely interested and maybe one more (the 3rd I can avoid… she’s just in my econ class, of the other 2, 1 I’m guaranteed to see and the other has my cell phone number). I guess I could just go out with them and have a good time. I think I’d still like to “avoid” getting involved with anyone though. The problem with avoiding stuff… “shit happens”.

I need to get a new car… long story but my Mom’s Aviator ended half way up my front end.

“One must chose in life between boredom and suffering”

But what happens if they occur concurrently?

Not so fun weekend. I went home again… my mom insisted that I be there to wire her new house for surround sound. No more than an hour after I’m there and Guy backs over the left from end of my car with the Aviator. Perhaps I shouldn’t have screamed “CAR!” a few seconds before he hit… the damage would have been much more fun to look at. As it stands… I have a nice couple of dents to my left front quarter panel and bumper… the cost to get it fixed will probably be more than the car is worth so I think I’ll just let it go and put the repair costs towards a new car. The damage to the aviator is going to fun to fix too. The whole rear bumper has to be replaced (backup sensors and all)… to the tune of 3k.

The rest of the weekend was excruciatingly boring. I speced out the wiring for the sound system in about 30 minutes, went to my dad’s for an hour, then worked on homework ’till midnight. Woke up at 9, shower, etc, left the house at 11 to wire the sound system. Guy took his good olde time reworking my plans that we ended up using anyway. Finished at 4 after watching him fumble around for several hours, ate diner and now I’m home. I suppose there was some fun in all this in so far as I got to put together my new computer… although I can’t use it since I don’t have the graphics card yet.

I’ve intentionally left a few “interesting” things out… but I do have one question. Do women learn from birth how to be intentionally vague, awkward, and elusive (maybe evasive is a better word here)?