Entries this day: fun grrr later

fun

am 2 January 1999

Yesterday Fred and I got pizza at Star Pizza (best in
Houston) and took one to Wende at work.

While we waited for her to get her lunch break, we
practiced on Fred's unicycle!!!  That was fun,
munching pizza, making brief wobbly trips up to 30
feet from the truck.

One kid asked Fred, "are you a clown?"

"No, but I'm in training."

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Last night we went to Molly and Will's house for our
Christmas celebration and Molly has a unicycle!  I
totally forgot!!!  She got it during our college days
and it's sitting with flat tire in her garage.  I
think I might buy it from her!

      With Love
      - Rob

grrr

I am pissed at my brother for so blatantly not
planning ahead!  He's all, "I planned to call Karen to
see if she can give me a ride to Katy's to get my
sweatshirt and then back to Dad's house to drop me
off."

He's been here for 2.5 fuckin' days; seems like this
plan could have been figured out a tad before 3 hours
before he needs the ride.

What bugs me most (of course), is that I do it too,
but not to this degree!  (really!)

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Yesterday Fred and I were at my work, workin' on the
PCs.  He was trying to get the Soundblaster card to
work in the first machine I set up, and I installed
Win NT 4.0 Server in a second machine.

We found a bug in the install process (big surprise):
when we install booting from CD-ROM, it will ask at
one point, "please insert Setup Disk 3 into the CD-ROM
drive"

There is no Disk 3 that will fit in the CD-ROM drive
and clicking OK with the one CD in there didn't work.

Installing using the floppies to boot, it works:
"please insert Setup Disk 3 into the floppy drive"  
It took me several tries booting from CD-ROM before I
tried booting from floppy.  Grrrrrr at Microsoft for
producing shitty software.

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But I got NT installed, installed MS Office on it, and
then I couldn't get the email stuff to work.  The
dialogue boxes are different than they are on NT 4.0
Workstation.  I am just not sure what to do.  I
haven't consulted support.microsoft.com, which I may
do.  I might also ask John (of John and Maggie) to
come look.

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Fred, Wende and I are 'bout to go meet my mom for
lunch!

   With Love
   - Rob

later

3:46pm Sunday 2 January 2000

I've been at work for the past 2 hours, trying to get the email thing to work. I've tried a ridiculous number of variations, can't figure anything out, so I decided to start over.

The hard drive is currently being low-level formatted; I'll install NT Workstation this time (which I have successfully set up before) and start over again when the machine needs to become a server sometime in mid February.

Bluh!

With Love
- Rob permalink