:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Thursday, September 04, 2003 ::

ouchies again
Well, yesterday wasn't too bad in the pain department (though I let Dad drive all day because I couldn't turn my head), but today I skipped work. I wanted to make sure I could get to class without too much trouble.

is there hope?
I realized the other day that my schedule was wrong. I went in early today to get things settled on it. They took me out of Object Oriented Programming in C++ (apparently it was cancelled this semester), and put me into Introduction to Computers. Talk about a huge jump backwards.

Anyway, after talking to the Dean of Students, she said I needed the class anyway to graduate. Sucks, right? But, I got a few things straightened out for my future Bachelor's degree and I'm going to try and take as many classes here at Patchogue before I start commuting all the way to Bethpage.

light at the end of the tunnel
Of course, being back in school messes up my work schedule. There was a reason I took my classes no earlier than 6 o'clock. The Intro class is at 5. I don't get out of work until 5. Since transporters haven't been invented, yet, I have to leave work early to make it to class on time. I forgot to talk about it with my Professor tonight. I'll bring it up on Monday.

However, going to school after work will be a relief. Instead of just a boring day of making sure all the state fields have states in them, I'll have boring classes to sit through afterwards. Both of my teachers seem to really want to make it interesting for us, so I will definitely try my hardest to stay with them on things.

I just have a feeling I'm going to be the Hermione in the class this time around.

blah blah
Work yesterday wasn't the greatest. We came in and things were screwed up right off the bat. Apparently, the main file server went down, and Bill was scrambling about most of the morning to get it back up and running. Then, I had to reindex Steve's database because it somehow became all corrupted over the weekend. Then there were the issues Jerry was having all day with his voice mail system...

But someone somewhere decided to grace me with the biggest problems of the day. While I was running around fixing the other things, I kept coming back to my own computer to fix that. I was getting registry errors during start up, I couldn't connect to the servers (after they were back up, by the way...), I was missing important files, and programs that I had uninstalled weren't being removed from the hard drive and registry keys. I replaced the files, which solved my networking and drive mapping issues, changed some things in the registry, and deleted a bunch of stuff off the hard drive. I still get registry errors (different from the originals, which is a good sign...), and my log on process is completely different than what it had been originally, but the computer runs.

I'll take it for now.

newsgroups are saviors of the computer
I've been digging around Microshaft's online support newsgroups to find answers to some of the problems I've been having with my computer here at home lately. I've found some really interesting ideas. I'm apparently not the only one with these issues, either.

One problem...

There's apparently several different causes to these problems, and there's several different solutions to solve each cause. Okay, more than several, but you get the point.

I'm hoping that some of the ideas I've found will help me out once I get the time to work on them.

snapple "real fact" #146
The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.

They obviously don't mean population-wise... O.O;;