January 30, 2007:
Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
~JCF von Schiller
Well, I think I caught Joel's bug. Even though I am not surprised or mad about it, I had secretly hoped that it would pass me over. Silly me. It's not too bad right now, I just feel tired, my throat is a little tight and sore and I am soooo out of it. Stupid colds.
So last night Joel came over to work on his work while I was doing my homework. I was pretty happy about that idea because it's kinda comforting having him in the same room. Him on my bed reading his email, me on my computer doing my paper. In my head, what a great thing! But there was one little problem.
I can't get his laptop set up on our wireless. I don't know why but it just won't work because it can't obtain the IP address. So very very annoying. Usually, I just unplug my ethernet and give it to him but I needed internet last night and I didn't have my laptop. So after fighting with the wireless for about 30-45 minutes, we gave up and went to Fry's for a very long ethernet cable. After I got home, I discovered that the hole was just a little too small. No worries! I'll just pull out my handy drill and worked on the hole.
After many many many attempts, I was finally able to shove the stupid connector through the floor. Yay! Almost there! But alas, no. Once the cable was pulled through the floor into the basement, we connected it to his laptop and nada. Nothing. No internet. WTF?! So I go upstairs, fiddle with the box and then the power goes out on the box. Great. The wireless router is now dead.
I pull the back up Linksys from the drawer of goodies and connect it, hoping that the router was the issue. Nope. Nada. Again. The existing ethernet is working fine but the new one? Dead as can be. So I start to pull the cable from the floor and at some point, it decided to get stuck. Being a little frustrated, I didn't want to deal with it, so I just cut it off ... and now I have part of a cable hanging out in my floor. Go me!
We have another cable that we think might fit but the connector is waaaay larger than the other one ... and I just don't have the patience to drill more. So for about 2 hours and some last night - that was my frustration. Now I have to buy a new wireless router and another better quality cable .... and borrow Cathy's drill to make a nice big hole in the floor. But that was my fun last night....
I had a paper to write on The Constant Gardener but after that fiasco, I just wasn't in the mood. And now, I'm even more not in the mood.... due to feeling like crapola. Stupid colds. Stupid internet! I do have to finish the paper though tonight because I just can't afford to get behind. This coming week will be interesting because I have a lot to work on ... along with a test this weekend. Oi vey.