Gotta get my sewing machine fixed. I made accessories for Santa sleighs for my three oldest friends last year but never made the Santas to go with them because the bobbin assembly in my sewing machine is messed up. It doesn't matter how carefully I load the bobbin or which direction I put it (because I've never figured that out) it creates a nasty horrible tangle I have to snip through to get the whole thing back out again. I read the manual and found out I should have been lubricating that thing over the years. oops. I hope it isn't broken beyond repair. I have so many pairs of jeans I roll up because I can't hem them properly. Hand stitched hems on jeans look wrong to me. These days I refuse to buy anything I have to hem. Thankfully, the clothing people are coming out with women's pants in lengths. They're not as consistent as men's clothing but it's better than hacking off 6 inches of pants all the time.
I tried hand-sewing the Santas last year and got one pair of legs made before my arms and neck gave out. Stupid middle-aged eyes. Guess I should consider a lighted magnifier for my Christmas list this year.
Geez it's cold. I'm wearing socks and my toes are still like ice. We may need to get that new furnace filter and turn the thing on soon. The kitties are all very snuggly. That's the good news.
Our DSL keeps messing up since Friday. Eric was preparing to re-install Windows XP Home on his computer after he upgraded all the hardware and even though that was working, none of the browsers could connect. I had to reboot the modem twice. That's normal. The first time it never reconnects. The second time it does. Pain in the butt, that is. Last night I was playing puzzle pirates and I was communicating fine.. a little laggy maybe but still I was online. Eric couldn't get a browser to connect. Between battles I tried and couldn't connect either. After we got to port I had to reboot the thing twice again.
It did it twice when we weren't even using it. All three mornings I've had to reboot the modem to get online. Earthlink has nothing on their site about it. Grrr. I'm tired of rebooting the freaking modem! Maybe it's time to check for new firmware.
The black flying bugs in the router lab at school like me. I remember those bugs. My high school had them out in the fields. These fly in through the open door. They're about the same length as a house fly but they're only about 1/3 the width and it hurts a lot if they bite you. I thought they were liking me because I normally come to lab after doing stuff that makes me a little sweaty. Yesterday I showered right before I went to lab. They still came at me. Damned bugs! Maybe I need to rub a little deet on me before I go to school.
There's this really annoying guy in my router class. He's always hyper and pushy and I have a gut-level dislike of him. If you know me at all, you know gut-level dislikes are unusual for me. I think he's the same guy who wanted me to bootleg him a copy of my Windows Server class CD... and dropped the class soon after. As soon as he heard I was going to leave earlier this week during a busy time in lab, he got in my way taking over the equipment so I couldn't tell what I'd disconnected or even keep my thoughts together about what I needed to do. I had to tell him to leave the routers alone until I saved my configuration files from them. Thursday he came pushing into lab again when I was closing down to go home. Without even asking me, he and another student sat down at one of the PC's I was using for my pseudo-network. He didn't know if I was shutting down or what and I said, "Hey! I'm using that!" He just wanted to look at a CD the other guy had. That was OK but he really should have asked first! I think he picked up on my irritation because he backed up on the pushiness after that. The trouble was I grabbed all my stuff that was down by them and stuck the cap to my thumb drive into my pocket without thinking. That cap on the desktop reminds me to grab the thumb drive off the back of the PC. So I didn't remember to do that and left it there.
One of his friends, who had been talking loudly in Chinese on a cell phone while he paced into and out of the lab for the last 5 minutes at that time interrupted his phone call long enough to ask pushy guy what drugs he was selling this time. That caused an interesting reaction from Pushy. He did a double take and said he wasn't selling drugs, he was looking at a CD.
Verrrry interesting...
My instructor has my thumb drive safely locked up in his office. He got distracted after I asked him for it yesterday and drove most of the way home before he remembered and called the lab instructor to apologize to me. I ended up saving the two router configs I was using for the lab I'm halfway through on the PC's. I'll collect them later. It was good practice to type all the stuff I usually load from the thumb drive. Gotta know how to do it to pass the test at the end.
Shopping time. I'm out of my current dosage of Adderall (30mg) so I took two of the 20mgs I have left over from my last dosage change. Whee! I'm so awake! It's waiting for me at the pharmacy. Gotta go get it.
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