Soy cansado, soy dolorido, y deseo desaparecer
Voy a ir loco… o ya soy. No se cuanto mas puedo tomar. Oy… acentos estupidos de Espanol…
Lots more homework this weekend… only I wasn’t quite prepared for it. I thought it would take a lot less time than it did and consequently waited too long to do it. On a slightly worse note, I have about 30% understanding of the current class material. I pray the rest of the class is on par with me.
Believe it or not… that’s all the “woe is me” you get today. Things are actually pretty good, minus my current lack in spare time, but that will be over soon.
I’m debating on if I should ask someone out to dinner. I almost did but I wimped out. There is a good reason for that… one that I shall keep locked away in a deep dark hole unless I actually do ask… which I’ll have plenty of opportunities to do so.
Since my summer is wide open and I’m going to have a lot of money to play with I’m working on some plans. My mom wants to go on a cruise or just goto one of the Caribbean Islands. I’m gonna see if I can get her to take a bunch of people too. This might be my last summer where I’m not bound to a full time career and I might as well go some place fun and spend a lot of money (albeit it may not be mine). QuakeCON may not happen this summer… or at least not for me. I need to plan my trip to Dallas and the Carribian to be around the same time as to not piss off AEP a lot and ID Software hasn’t issued a date or location yet… in that case I might just double my vacation. My friends who want to go are limited to about a week so I might take a second and go backpacking somewhere (not in the Americas though).
I have to go into Wyadot for at least 8 hours this week. Corporate decided they wanted to do our POS upgrades the week before opening. The fun part… they’re only updating 1 or 5… I get to replicate that to the rest (as well as fix what ever they mess up on the client and server). Oh Oh!!! DELL SUCKS! The GX270 apparently has a problem where the capacitors supporting the CPU fan burst and ooze all over the motherboard. The oozing description is only for imagery… the board would already have been dead.
Ehh… I’m tired of typing. I’ll post more later… ish.
Oh hey Ben… “QUACK!”
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.