So here we are .. it’s about 11:15ish and I was suppose to be working on my trig homework that’s due tomorrow .. I have approximatly 4 sections to do before my test tommorow. It’s got it’s pro’s and cons procrastinating, one of which I have to be up for another hour or so but also it may mean that I’ll have it all fresh in my head before the test! I suppose one of my biggest faults is my in-efficiency. I put so much work into something with no planning or structure and -POOF- it all goes to mayhem.
So I’m home. It’s not quite home until you do your first load of laundry, or until you get the internet. We did. It’s a trade-off. One of my roomates opened his yapper and was like do we get to keep the FREE cable? Of course we don’t but thanks for bringing it up! -sighs- Anywho .. no matter. Between tv and internet I’d choose the internet anyday.
So we all agreed that we’d go with a wireless network. Big mistake or not? I’m not quite sure as of yet. I bought my upgrade for my computer, put it in and everything was working QUITE SHIBBY. Until of course murphy’s law kicked in. Basically anything that can go wrong will go wrong. For some reason my network card didn’t go quite right with my motherboard. After about 4 hours of scratching my head, and of course troubleshooting, I pulled everything out and put in component by component. I got it down to the stuipd network card. I updated all of my drivers and settings for both my PCI slots as well as an upgrade to my BIOS(which is super shibby due to the limitations of previous BIOS versions) and also for this network card. Still freezes.
So it’s day 1 of day 3 and I’m so beyond frustrated. Nothing is working right and I deciede to just say forget it … for tonight. I find out it was an IRQ conflict and I fiddled around for it for about 3 hours. 3 calls to D-LINK for technical support and also 2 D-LINK dwl-520 cards later, I deciede to go back to Best Buy for the 3rd and final time. I paid an extra 20 bucks and had a linksys instead. Beautiful. Thank goodness I didn’t have to upgrade my motherboard.
Bad news or good news? Well it works right now … and it works beautifully however some bad stuff happened. Horrendous things! My photos of the ocean journey, GONE, my new ozweegoville GONE. All of it. I was trying to copy it over to my second partition but the problem I was having with the network cards is that it would completly freeze my computer and the only way to fix it would be to reboot. Grrrr …
So I’m trying to be positive. So much time just WASTED for such an easy concept and something that is going to be such worthwhile, so the only thing I could think positive for loosing all of my pictures is the simple fact I’m going to have go back! But this time I will be prepared. You see, I only had the capabilities to take about 30 good quality pictures. I take pictures of anything and everything, I also like to take videos and such. I upgraded the memory from 16mb to 128mb and now instead of taking only 30ish pictures, I can now take well over 200. Due to the poor quality from the pictures taken(I have never had to take pictures indoor under such poor lighting) I now know the in’s and out’s of my camera and thus I can take much better quality pictures. So I am stoked about that… I’ve been wanting to do that for quite some time. Also I figured out how to use my camera as a web cam. I have a Fuji camera that was about 500$ when it first came out about two or three years ago but I got it half off for only 200$ about a year ago. It is superb especially for my amatuer needs but hopefully everything will work itself out .. so sorry .. not pictures as of yet ..
So I picked up my room and re-organized some of my lacking parts in my room. I realised that I still have all my computer boxes. I can’t even bare to part with my boxes. The boxes to all of my components. Perhaps when I look at them, it’s as if it’s a dirty pleasure. Something I did for me and only for me. I have the money and it took me forever to save up for it and even longer to do the research on it, and furthermore I felt like I spent it irresponsibly. Perhaps not if all my bills are paid but I’m one to have a cushion, and when the cushion starts to deflate, if even for a little bit the danger starts to appear.
So I need to get on my math before it gets any later!
take care all,
kc
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