We have Office and once again it is very boring, with stuff way too similar to the computer course from Upward Bound, which was months of continous word processor assignments, though we are using 2000 version of Office not 97 like, we were. Jeff tries hard, but fails sadly in the most important parts of the module, and is essentially teaching us stuff we already know. It is not his fault, it is just the material.
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Well, here we go again for another week of fun fun fun. Two tests today, and then a big one on Monday. The Win98 machine named black hole is now a NT 4 box called Hell. Apparently an appropriate naming scheme based entirely on the install process yesterday. The dumb ass day class has once again been screwing with everything in sight, to the point of the corner four here being so screwed up that it took abotu 20 minutes to figure it out yesterday, then they had the joy of having to do the NT 4 installs on machine that had been rudely cannibalized by thre day class. Today we get here to a monitor on top of three cases, and a warning to not screw up the set up. I think there is a good chance it will come down by itself. Kids.
Test day today, though thankfully not the worst one this week. As I write this, I am taking the written on paper part of it, which is a good chunk, though the majority of it is in a new online format, which had many problems. I got a lowly 58% on the onlien portion, and now I need the paper portion to bring it up to a much better score. Now it is done and I think I got a little closer to passing. This was much appealing, though I need more in the line of scores.
Today was one hell of a day to start off with. I woke up at 1:28, having missed by usual bus, but assured in the knowledge that I could simply catch the bus at 2:14. I got up, got dressed, and went to check my email with the intent of doing a quick check and see what had come in over night. At 2:00 PM I got everything together, without a bite to eat in me, and rushed off to catch the bus. Usually it takes me 5 minutes or so to get from my place to the bus. Being put out of my way 4 times by different new construction events, I arrived at the beginning of the Trinity church property, 30 feet from the bus stop, in enough time to see clearly from the side that the 80 Industrial Park was pulling away quickly from the bus stop. Grrr.
Pissed off as I already was, I looked down the street and saw the 60 Pembina coming, and an idea popped into my head, foolish as it was, that maybe the 60 could catch up before the 80 turned off of Pembina Hwy. <insert evil sounding error buzzer here> I forgot it was the season of rush construction, just after summer, and just before winter, when the city does all he construction projects put off by lack of proper planning. 4 different construction jams later, and arriving 2 seconds too late at Confusion Corner, we arrived at Clarence, where the 80 turns off Pembina, in enough time to see the 80 10 minutes down the street, and about to turn onto Waverley.
I looked at my watch, and saw I had roughly an hour to get from were I was to the school. So I headed out on my hike. I walked all the way up Clarence, only leaving the bus path to ignore the off shoot the bus takes and to cross a field that cut about 5 minutes and had no intrinsic value otherwise, to hit Waverley. <insert Homer like Doh! here> The bus that apparently passes by to deliver Convergys people around 3:30 went by. Transit has no information on this bus, and neither does their web site. Cursing and swearing I walked across the street and up to Chevrier, and sat down on the bench for about 5 minutes to relax my legs. I then caught the 78 up to Scurfield and walked the rest of the way, getting into class at 3:47, 13 miutes ahead of Grant. Now I have to go write a test.
Well, test done. Sad to say, I think I did worse on this one. It is the fact that I can do all the reading I want at home, but when it comes to knowing the stuff I have to be able to reproduce it and the P75 running Win98SE is just not able to do it. I tried to read the book last night but every second question had a 'do this on your computer' line and I cannot do it. Tago told me today that the person, Karen, from Student Aid said she wants a teleconference between Rick, herself and Tago tomorrow, so tomorrow night I should know the bad/good news. She has been calling mom and dad's so I tried to call her 3 times today with no success. I told her to leave a message with mom as to when is the best time to call. Hopefully more good then bad will come out of all of this, cause I really would hate to have to fight them on this. I dislike the press a lot, but I will get them involved if I have to. The Manitoba school system let me down once, in not diagnosing this till I was in my later teens, I will not let them do it once more.
Class is about to begin, so I must be swift. Woke up just before noon today and headed out almost immediately to get to my mom's work to get an envelope and a stamp off her, but she only gave me money, so I had to then rush to a post office to get a stamp, then send the M.O. for Trinic off to them. Then, while waiting at a different bus stop then usual, who steps off the frigging bus then Venus, my Ex fiance. Not the piece of my past I was looking to run into today or any day in the near or far future. She was with her daughter, which thankfully looks nothing like me, past or present, and I know she saw me because I know the way she acts and she was intentionally avoiding looking at me. She hasn't changed much, though, still looks like she has a decent body, and still wears the same damned GCI sweater and black jeans.
You'd think she owned little else.In other news, Brian linked to me again today, for the second time is a short few days. Saturday's link only got me 3 so I am not counting on ths one getting any more. The link was from a letter I sent him in regards to his apparent forward, or backward thinking when it comes to the current or previous dates. Though to have the links is a definite nice thing to see, I kind of wish it were not entirely in quoting a letter, but instead in regards to something I posted in here or in the daynotes. Oh well, beggars cannot be choosers I guess. One comment that can be made is that Brian's error is not nearly as bad as the continued one from Matt, where his thoughts on the attacks say they happened on the 9th of Sept. Matt?? I think it needs a change.
Is it me or does it look a lot like Bob is quoting me? Last night I posted about the Vote Virus and about The Register stating that Gartner Group is recommending people drop IIS for apache or another more secure server program. I know it is likely coincidence, but it is weird.
I hate Unreal. I hate Unreal I HATE UNREAL!!! I got so involved in playing that I missed the lunch call and now I have no lunch. I know it is my own damned fault, but it still pisses me off. I was hoping to go to McDonalds, which Grant went to for lunch without me. I hope he enjoys his fucking nuggets. :-( We did a weird lab were as two groups from opposite sides of the room had to send a message over Cat5 in binary. We succeeded, they did not.
Well, I am posting this from the TRC(Technology Resource Center) on campus at school. The computer I thoroughly trashed last week by getting the chair I was on's wheel wrapped in the Cat5 and pulling it off the desk is gone, likely for repair of all affected pieces, which are many. The video is toast, the power supply fucked, and the motherboard likely in pieces. Damn. Well, one way to learn what not to do is to try everything else possible. I must, in my own defense, state that a good little admin would have secured all cable tightly behind the machine, not laying out on the floor for anyone to trip on.
I think that my posting so frequently on Sunday is the reason my logs for that one day are almost half that of the day when FreeFind does a crawl of the site. They crawl on Monday and they cause my average log to be in the 300 K or so range. Sunday's log was around 160 K. I woudl like to thank all the visitors to the blog, and apologize for all of the apparent errors that you were getting for some reason. I scrolled through the logs for Sunday and I got a massive, and scary amount of 404's caused by /GeekMeltdownblog/index.htm. This, I must say, really pissed my off. I had just set it up but yet people are gettign 404's, though it worked fine for me. This will be looked into very very soon.
