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It's been a while since I posted last. So, I guess I'll fill in a little bit about what has been happening.

The apartment has become habitable, but it's still a bit of a mess, so no pictures yet. Last night Colin and I finally organized the living room the way we want it and found that we have more space than we know what to do with. My parents finally ended up taking the camper out and have been at Saylorville since I moved out, thus the past two weekends Gaila and I took the boat out for a couple hours.

Since the Internet started working at home, I have been looking for ways to get the rest of my wired computers to access the wireless network though my router, though I haven't been having much luck bridging the networks wireless to wired. Apparently wireless routers are a lot cheaper than access points, and the cheap access points don't support bridging wireless to wired and the routers only route. Hopefully I can get this figured out soon so I can work comfortably in my room with my display.

Last Thursday and Friday at work we have been cleaning and painting the new office that we were supposed to move in to over a year ago. Pictures of the project can be found here. They still need to install a drain for the cooling unit up there, so as soon as they finish that we get to finish painting and then start moving. Our hopes are for next weekend, which is also scheduled to be the time we upgrade our MUG server to Tiger. I hope we will be able to figure this out.

School starts in one week, so I guess I should also be thinking about that. I still need to find 3 credits that will go towards filling some graduation requirements. I suppose I'll just take some history class and satisfy my US Diversity and History requirements separately.

The Internet is finally working at the apartment. I'll be happy until I need an external IP address. No time to actually use the Internets now, time to do more work moving a desk and organizing a mess.

So, Monday afternoon, evening and night I was busy moving. Meri came by to help with assembling some furniture for us during the time she was able to help out (Thanks). I got my bed, Tom's couch, and a bunch of other things moved in so that I can spend the night. Gaila was also a big help with assembling the rest of the dining set and helping with a bunch of heavy lifting and being handy.

Colin and I found that the Internet is not working yet in our building. According to the instructions we are supposed to go to their web site and register our NICs. Though nothing is accessible form the apartment, and when I go to their web site the registration process does not work. First problem is that they don't have our complex in the list of properties they service. Second, the username for the account is suggested to you and comes in the form of a truncated concatenation of your last to first name (example JohReari), no way to enter your own username. Then when it asks for a password to assign to your account it thinks you haven't filled in the password field. Though, by looking at their site I can understand that they can't really do anything. At least there is a phone number, hopefully Colin called them or I can call them when I get home.

I still need to move 2 desks and my dresser, so there is still a lot of work to do. I hope we can have the apartment figured out and clean by the weekend.

Pictures when things a cleaned up :-)

So, I'm finally getting around to packing for my new apartment. I got all the utilities lined up and I know when we will be getting in. Mom has been on a shopping spree with the excuse to buy stuff for my apartment and the camper. I am attempting to clean up this mess down here and organizing what I will be taking and what I will be leaving. Doing stuff that hasn't been done for 15 to 20 years (example cleaning out my desk drawers). Monday is moving day for Colin, Gaila, and I (and hundreds of other people in town). If you want to help out, just give me or Gaila call. I have class Monday 10 to noon and will be taking the afternoon off from work to do the moving.

Anyway, it's time for dinner. Laters.

So, it has been a little while since I've posted last. I took a picture of my nice work setup:

Now that is out of the way, I have set up my new Dell computer, and find that it blue screens overnight with a memory parity error. I run all the test on the service partition and it doesn't find anything wrong anywhere. I'm going to need to get some memetest action going on it now, and/or reinstall Windows (I'm running the factory installation for the time being, which makes me wonder about why I would have a problem straight out of the factory).

Aside from my computer, I called on Sunday night to come fix a Mac (yeah, something I'm really good at). Turns out the HD was blown away and I had to format and re-install. Though, since they didn't want to spend money on an OS upgrade, I was stuck with reinstalling from the original media running 10.1 (gasp!). At least I got paid for it.

Now, today, I had an appointment with the foot doctor to take care of an ingrown toe nail. I am now setting here with an aching toe that needs to be taken care of. Hopefully, I'll be all good and healed by the time any heavy lifting for moving will take place.

So, there we have it. If you want to waste a lot of time I suggest checking out Planarity. Gaila and I have been spending a bunch of time playing with this lately. She has gotten to level 17, and I am going on to level 10.

So, I picked up my computer from Durham yesterday over my noon hour. I decided that I would use my display here at work before I move to my new apartment on the 1st. I got this crazy idea that I could adjust the display height so that it would be on top of my built in PowerBook display and I could go dual monitors at work. This turned out to be pretty cool. I even was able to play two videos at the same time, one on each display. Here's the pic of the setup at work

I later set up my computer at home on my KVM. Though I plan on formatting and reinstalling when I get to the apartment.

• 3 bananas
• 2 eggs
• 2 Cup Flour
• 3/4 Cup Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 Cup Nuts (if desired)

Bake 1 hour at 350° F

Wow, now this is an omen when trying to configure a difficult conf file.

Well the best video I've seen so far of the implosion is Here (62 MB, Right-Click Save As, Language may not be work safe, mirrored here from fortis.student.iastate.edu). You can also find more information at the rofflehaus wiki.

Well, I go to pick-up my computer at 4:30 or so and find that they close at 4:00 instead of 5:00 as listed by their old web site which was the site as of when I ordered the computer last Wednesday. They finally moved (but put no indication of the move on the old site) to http://www.it.iastate.edu/sales/. I will now have to wait for tomorrow sometime to pick it up now. Grrr.

So... Monday, I wake up and check my email. I got a message saying the Meeting Maker server was down, so I try to remote desktop in to restart the service, only to find the machine is not responding. So I had to rush to work in order to get it back up and running again. Meeting Maker hard-froze OS X Server! The rest of the work day goes by as normal. I called IT Computer Sales for the status of my order. They said Wednesday or Thursday.

Monday night is going down to Des Moines to do stuff with my cousin's computer. In return they took Gaila and me out to Outback Steakhouse (YUM!). After getting things all setup and a crash course on Palm Pilot I picked up Dad from the airport. Long day, but a pretty good day.

Today, I wake up to no important emails. But when I get in the door I find several messages about the WWW server being down. Sure enough Kernel Panic, SCSCI errors and a blinking light on the RAID. Simple restart, things are back to working. I spend most of the rest of my free time compiling and installing Nagios so that perhaps the next time a server goes down, I'll get a page. So far, only 2 servers, two days in a row locked up while Tom is gone. I still have 7 more days to watch over these guys, and I hope that is the worst. (It is common for large problems to happen while Tom is on vacation. The last two years was a major virus outbreak on campus. We're keeping a close eye on the AV server here. )

After taking care of the server problem this morning, I got an email from my instructor saying that the class will be watching the Towers Implosion. We saw it on Channel 13 without sound and then had class. I totally forgot about it until that email came. I was courteous enough to let Nick know and bring my co-worker to class to watch it.

During class I got a message on my cell phone that my new Dell system has come in. So I'm going to be leaving right now to pick it up. So, it's time to go.