2009-10-29:

As perfect as it gets for a hard working computer repair guy, anyway. So the morning went well, with the three jobs all taking about the time I thought they would. My first one was just to move stuff off a crappy old PIII with 192 MB of RAM ("running" XP, more like crawling XP if you ask me) which he then gave me after I was done. Great. Thanks. Next up was the no sound from laptop lady. Her power button was also acting- well, it wasn't acting, it wasn't working at all. Disassembling the top part I found two thin, black connector cables one which ran to a circuit board and controlled the power button/speakers (uh, okay) and the other that controlled the volume keys. Hey, whatever. I used the useless volume key one in place of the more important power button one, and it not only turned on correctly, the speakers started to work again. So now I need to somehow find the exact length of thin, black connector cable needed. I'm sure it'll be a snap! *lying* Then over to number 3, my favorite "unmountable boot volume". I tried to ask him if he saw the recovery console selection when he booted, but he either didn't understand or had selective blindness because there it was. Oh well, could have taken care of it over the phone, instead, you got charged a half hour labor. Ate lunch on the way back home, colored that comic from yesterday, and finally had a break to just sit and think about a few things. I have been busy lately. The revelation I had was thus: looking for geeks to date on regular dating sites is going to be an exercise in frustration. "There must be a better way" I thought to myself. And as I know the difference between the address bar and the search bar at the top of my browser, I was able to type in "geek dating site" and came across three good looking candidates. soulgeek, sweetongeeks, and geek 2 geek. I'll give #7 until monday (that'll be a week) to either figure out I'm awesome and actually begin a dialog with me (i.e. answer my questions and ask some of your own) and if she doesn't, then set up on one or more of those. Very refreshing to read a whole bunch of profiles in a row and think, "wow, I could date almost any of these people!" and then realize I was looking at men by accident. *joking* Hey, they all say "I want someone who can make me laugh" making me think that either geek girls are a very somber lot and need cheering up or they just put that in like "must not eat kittens" as some kind of copy and paste job. So I want to work on my sense of humor. Personally, I don't care if you can make me laugh. But can you make me think? That's the more important piece, by far, as all geeks should know. Ate dinner early for a change and went to my 5:30, which was as smooth as the top of a freshly opened jar of creamy peanut butter. Basically her problem was adaware, which, on boot, immediately grabbed over 300MB of RAM and then crashed. Repeatedly. She was also running AVG 8.5, slow, slow, slow. Cleaned that stuff up, took off stuff she wasn't using, and was home, well, technically, within the hour. She was maybe ten minutes late, so, yeah, about that. Seven calls tonight, however, at least four of them were from people I didn't reach yesterday. One wants to drop it off which is all to the good. So after I got back I made my phone calls as usual. Got ready for the next two days, as I'll probably be out late both friday and saturday at RIT for the convention. No trick or treaters for me this year I guess. Oh well, I don't get many anyway for some reason. Probably cause I show up to the door buck naked! *joking* I'll get the hang of this humor stuff yet, I swear! Current craigslist spam: "Hullo! I am good looking female, looking for a sex partner." Sure you are, uh huh. Thanks, but if I'm taking my clothes off, it's with someone I've known for, like, six months or more, thank you very- I mean, after I'm married. Right. Married.