chaz720.net - journal

March 05, 2000

Wow... ...I feel old. I heard the news today that my sister is engaged to be married. That is such a mind job. I am so happy for her, but I can't help but think about how it seems like only yesterday she was a senior in high school just as I am now. How scary is that? I knew that Eric and Her really liked each other a lot and I figured that it was only a matter of time before they tied the knot, Like I said, I am very happy for you guys, and wish you both luck. Enjoy life, live it to the fullest, and whatever you do, always look on the bright side of life. Look at me, I am writing like I am never going to speak to her again, that's awfully silly of me.

Anyway, on with the hopefully less meandering part: I am actually writing this as a pause in my current task which is to write a paper about wuthering heights. I am more concerned, at this point, with just getting a paper written with less of a concern that it be some highly enobled work of literature. I am about half way done, and I think that althought the begginging is usually the hardest part, I may be here a while. The reason I am writing the paper right now is kinda a funny one. Well, okay, not so much funny as it is not funny.

Today, Hans and I were given the task of setting up some computers at my dad's office. As usual, I was not informed of the intensity of which we would be working. What Ryan was told we would do: set up three computers, install a hard drive in one computer, and a tape drive in another computer. What we were expected to do: Install the three computers, and network them so that they could not only see each other, but also see the archaine file server that was running some outdated, obnoxious server software that used a form of an IPX protocal that windows 98 wants nothing to do with, and oh yeah, run a phone wire through the ceiling so that a modem and later a DSL line can be used with the computer furthest from the phone line (this wasn't really a huge task, but it did involve wire strippers and a few extra minutes of our time.) We left the office working to an extent, all of the new computers saw each other and were able to print to a common printer. And all of the old computers that were left over could see eachother, access the archaine file server, and print to a different common printer. One of the new computers pretended to see everything if only for a moment but really just got false hopes up. Long story short, we spent pretty much all day there and got quite a bit done, enough anyway to make my dad satisfied for the time being. And hey, true to my logue theory, I learned a bunch about what doesn't work when you are trying to set up a network.

I can thank a fluke in scheduling at CompEstadosUnidos for my ability to go downtown today, because this is the first sunday that I have not been scheduled for without some special request since July. Oh well, I don't really care, either way my day was pretty much taken up, I just got to get up a little bit later than usual. Hans's computer has managed to brake and fix itself on several fronts in the past few days, he has had everything from a "fried mainboard" to a "dead harddrive" that for absolutely no reason, when left alone fixed themselves. There is no way that one can complain about the computer's freak functionality augments, but it makes one wonder.

I also just want to mention here that I maintain to not have broken Katie's computer. All I did was find and install the missing drivers for her network card that was not working. And when I restarted the computer it started complaining that some system files were missing that not only have nothing to do with the network card, but any form of communication at all. So if you want to keep telling yourself and others that I broke it, then do so if it makes you happy, but do so knowing that you are living a lie :).

Unfortunately, I am currently typing, and yet the length of my paper for English is remaining constant, so I had best get myself working on that before I get too tired and it starts flowing even worse than it is right now.

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