3.31.02 – silicon jesus

spent the past two days with my brothers, fully dorking out over computer stuff…we bought matt a new cell phone/palm and configured it, i bought a printer, installed it on both of my computers, made my laptop play nicely with the desktop machine and share files, took apart the box and re-secured the motherboard, figured out that the power supply was faulty and switched it out for a new one, which required drilling new holes in the case to mount it, nearly toasted my ethernet card but we eventually repaired it, installed 2000 on my laptop even tho the disk was corrupt and a funny little hack was necessary, tweaked with the BIOS till everything worked again, sync’ed and archived files, tweaked with the house network settings…the list goes on. it’s good that i don’t work with computers for a living anymore, because it means that playing with them is still fun. nick dropped by to give me the w2k disk i needed and shuddered at the thought of spending a beautiful spring sunday taking a computer (much less two) apart, but that’s because he has to face computers all day long. of course, archiving and organizing files led me to reading old email and digging up files i hadn’t seen in years, which is why i’m still awake at 3 am.

sigh. whatever happened to those guys who thought a smart girl who knew computers was sexy? this shtick worked for me in high school…