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Wednesday, February 12, 2003

It's 1:00 AM, Do you know where your Wit's end is?

So, this is what exhaustion feels like. I've been tired before, but I don't know if I've ever been this exhausted, at least not in a little while. Not even after Thursday all-night karaoke sessions. Texas Turtle, I need your help. I spent most of last night at a friends house trying to fix her computer. The frustration lied in that she could connect to her dsl but could not browse any web pages. I tried everything I knew, then got SBC on the line and he walked me through his whole database of solutions too. Until we got to the Internet Connection Wizard that is, you see it didn't work and could not be installed from Windows Setup either because it wasn't there. How Internet Connection Wizard could not just dissapear from Windows, but from the Update Setup selection as well is beyond me. After trying a few dozen other things ,to include getting the same symptoms over a dial-up connection, a re-install of Windows 98 is suggested. Nice. Just want I wanted to do. Right. OK, at least all of the corrupt system files that I had come accross, and spyware installations that I found would be gone.

That is, as long as her hardware could install correctly once Windows Setup was finished. Turns out, her computer which is only 2 years old, was pieced together by some hack, who didn't give her any software or anything with it. So guess what, no drivers and Windows won't pick up her modem, doesn't know what her NIC, or her display adapter, or her Sound Card are for that matter. That normally wouldn't have bothered me, just download the drivers from the net. That would require a modem though, and this one just isn't working, no sign of life anywhere. Anyone got a modem you can email me? There's few things I despise worse that leaving a computer that isn't up and running yet. In fact, she's worse off now than before I got my hands on her computer. Talk about frustration.

Monday, February 10, 2003

Who Could That Be Coming Through my Back Door?

"Go away, don't come around here no more" Ahh the spyware game. I love playing it. Surf for a little bit and your computer slows down. Has this ever happened to you? I've finally decided to try to completely rid myself of all spyware by downloading AdAware 6.0 and Spybot S&D. It's a good thing I did, because in the past I have relied strictly on AdAware, but Spybot picked up a few little manifestations of spyware and scumware that AdAware didn't. Get 'em both and kill 'em all.

$20.00, Get Your $20.00 Here

If your like me, and I know you are, then you would not pass up the opportunity to get $20.00 for five minutes worth of your time. You see, Music Retailers have been ripping us off. There is a class action suit against them for it that will pay everyone who has purchased music from a retailer during the period of 1995 - 2000. But you have to file a claim or they wont know where to send your check. Go here and spend five minutes to tell them where to send your money.

Isn't Less Really More?

I have been hearing this term used more and more lately, and the use of it begs one question. If someone who pays for something is called a "payee" than why is it that someone who leases a car is referred to as a "lessee" and not a "leasee"? Could this have anything to do with the way the car industry looks at an individual who leases a car versus the individual who owns one? Hmmm.....

Kneeslapper

There was a woman who had 3 daughters. One day the first daughter asked her mother, "Why is my name Daisy?"

Her mother replied, "Because when you were born a daisy fell upon your tiny head."

Then the second daughter asked her mother, "Why is my name Rose?" Her mother answered, "Because when you were born a rose fell upon your tiny head."

The third daughter, hearing this, muttered something under her breath. "What?" asked her mother. The third daughter again said, "Hrehow thouwehera yseeeeeeeher." Her mother, frustrated at her daughters lack of speech skills, said, "Shut up, fridge!"

Friday, February 07, 2003

Fine Again

Finally got a chance to get cut a vid of Bobby and everything is fine again.

Friday Five

1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn't have breakfast, why not? - Grape Nut Flakes

2. What's your favorite cereal? - Grape Nut O's

3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change? - Once a week, that's enough for me.

4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that? - Eating out, always on Friday night

5. What's your favorite restaurant? Why? - Applebee's, one word, variety. also, it's food is not too greasy. There's also not much else around close to home, maybe Fresh Choice if we want to drive for 30 minutes.