2009-11-04:

My pithy little quips are the sunshine in your life, of course. Give me my little dream here, at least, k? Anyway. No major screw ups or shining victories today, which is all to the good. First thing I found was a bug in the logitech camera software. See, you can change the microphone's gain, that is, how loud stuff coming into it seems to be. When turned all the way up (to 11) it didn't actually pick up anything. But when turned down to around 90% or so, it worked as intended. Weird. Naturally I intuited (read: stumbled upon) the solution almost at once, while playing fetch with a collie in a long hallway after being barked at. (Tennis Ball) Next up, well, lunch actually. I came back home, because my next one wasn't until 1:30. That was a 10:00. Left there before 10:30, got home before 11:00. I guess I checked my websites. I sure didn't do paperwork, nor had it been done for me by elves. Just my luck. So over to see about this floppy drive problem. Yes, the OL still using Win98 in this day and age, and using floppies, of all things, to back up on. Well, I swap out the drive, it works fine, I put it back together. It doesn't work. I open the case. Take it out. Huh. Put it back. Works. Button it up. Fails. Try the second drive I brought. Works. Button it up. Doesn't work. Scream. Throw monitor out window, narrowly missing an old lady who was just minding her own business and not expecting twelve year old monitors to go flying through the air but hey you take what you get if you know where I'm coming from and if you don't go ask somebody about it because they know I'm right you betcha. From what I could tell, the monitor has just sat so long on the top (twelve years) that's it just warped and somehow pressing on the drive and making it not work. So I propped it up with some cardboard I found in the trash (I'm a ninja all right) so the case doesn't close all the way and left, it was working for now. The other option would be to put the unit on the floor, but then the monitor would be really low. Then out to Ontario. Lake ave, to be specific. I went up 590N (HI Sea Breeze!), trusting that google maps was leading me to where I needed to go, and turned right onto Lake. But there was no 105 where I was going. What the crap? Here is Lake Ave. Here is a number lower then 105. Here is a number higher then 105. What am I missing? So I come back home (only a few minutes drive) and look into the directions again. Ah, here's the problem. I didn't specify Ontario and apparently, the numbers on Lake Ave RESET someplace, so there are numbers in the 100s TWICE on the SAME ROAD. Thanks, numbing type dudes! So I got there ten minutes late. He couldn't get some games to run. I think his video card was too puny. But far be it from actually telling us this, no, just crash inexplicably. That's always good. It's called error checking people, try to use it sometime. Cleaned it out a bit too. Stupid vista crashing PCs hate kill. Came home, had, what, six calls? Booked tomorrow and one/two for friday. Ate dinner. Answered okcupid profile questions. They sent a funny email to me when I was done: Your login name: *redacted* Your personality: really great How bad OkCupid girls want you: so bad Your profile, as of 8 milliseconds ago: approved! > OkCupid Instant-Login There are plenty of geek girls on the site... when I search with the boundaries off. Some great people I would like to meet... from australia. Or Kfar Saba, Israel. Yeah, that's a huge help. Sigh. Anyway, that pile of paperwork is staring at me again, making me afraid, so I think I'll dig into it and put it to bed. Then I have a newegg order to place, a cable to find, HDL stuff for Sean to think about, then I have to get my route ready for tomorrow. No rest for the wicked! Current Mood: Is it summer yet?