After spending a wonderful day at Estes, we drove back into town and stopped at Best Buy because my iPod still wasn’t working. I finially convinced them to replace it. So I’m now the proud owner of a 4th Generation iPod. We have school tomorrow…that sucks.
Went over to the Weber’s today and watched Ryan’s soccer game. They completly dominated, winning 5-0. Then we headed up to the cabin. The house that burned down sometime ago was well on its way to being recontructed. We also caught 4 mice in the mouse traps.
Some of you should be getting the idea that I’m really not liking my Calc 1 class. Today we learned about Lou Gehrig’s Function. Now I’ve taken Calculus before and I’ve never heard of a function by that name. Turns out, she meant logarithmic functions. Anyways, the entire time, she sounds like she’s trying to confince herself that what she’s teaching is actually true. What can I say? This is going to be an interesting semester.
I also finally got my computer working again…without the help of ACN (Academic & Computer Networking). I ended up loading Knoppix, a version of Linux that boots straight off the CD. Then I transfered all my files to Jason’s computer (thanks Jason!) and reformated and reinstalled Windows. Hopefully this won’t happen again.
Today was pretty nice. I woke up at 8ish, went to PE at 9 where we discused details about the Alcohol Awarness meeting. 10 o’clock brought Calc 1 and all the joys thereof…or not. I had a few hours off, ate lunch, then went to my SYGN lab at 1pm. When I got there, there was no TA. Hmm. After some debating, the fire alarm went off, the third time this week. Our TA finally showed up at a ten ’till 2…she thought the class started an hour later then it really did. I’ve decided that I definatly don’t want to become a topographer. We watched Raising Helen at the Student Activity center. It’s actually a pretty funny movie, worthing watching. Now I’m trying really hard to get my computer fixed. Arg.
So we’re learning how to draw in EPICs. How cool is that? Our assignment is to draw a prospective view of something and turn it in next Wednesday. When I’m done, I’ll scan it in and post it here somewhere. We also had yet another fire alarm; second one this week, different building though. I think this one was planned though. Anyways, went to the FCA get together tonight. That was pretty awesome. Grandma and Grandpa are going to stop by on Friday on their way to Colorado Springs for Grandma’s reunion and I’m going up to Estes with the Weber’s!
My Tablet PC isn’t feeling very well. It refuses to finish booting Windows. After some messing around, I found out that a device driver, d346bus.sys, is not loading well. A quick google search indicates that I’m not the only one with problem. However, I don’t have any way to fix the problem at the moment. I tried downloading Knoppix, a bootable version of Linux, however, it only has read NTFS support and I actually need to write too. Then I headed down to the Computing Center, no help there. All the machines run W2K and the guy helping me didn’t have his WinXP disk with him, he will on Thursday though. I would use my WinXP disk, but I don’t have one because Microsoft forces companies who distribute OEM versions of their software to encrypt it so that it can only be restored on the machine it was designed for. Ergo, the OEM just makes a Norton Ghost image and creates a front end to ensure it will only load on the authorized computer and BAM…I’m up the river without a paddle. So, for the next few days I get to use a pen and paper (*gasp*).
Monday’s aren’t too bad really. I had a hour and fifty minute block of EPICs followed by 50 minutes of hell in Calc and another 50 minutes of Chemistry with a really great Chem teacher (the best in the school, so say upper classmen). I had a lunch meeting with the Orediggers, the school newspaper. I’m going to writting some articles and I post them here when I’m done. I’m also going to be working on the Oredigger’s website. Anyways, Earth Sci got a giant 15 minutes chunk taken out when the fire alarm went off. No fire truck showed up and I couldn’t see any flames, so I assume it was a false alarm.
My iPod saga continues as my 20GB 3rd Gen iPod still is not working. I’ve taken it to BestBuy several times now, all with no change and I’m really getting fed up. Tomorrow I’m bribing my apartment mate to take to BestBuy where I hope to convince them that they need to replace my iPod, not “repair it” (read as: send to a lab where they can reformat and reinstall, but not actually fix anything). If that doesn’t work, I plan on finding an Apple store where they should be able to replace it on the spot.
Today was sort of like yesterday. I didn’t really do much. I do go to Boondocks today. It’s an overpriced family fun center…I got in for $1 though and recieved unlimited gokarts, bumber boats, mini-golf, lasertag, and 10 tokens for games, so I’m fine with that. I also worked on the little amount of homework that I had today. Nothing much else to report.
I downloaded and installed Windows XP SP2 the other day and it was working just fine. However, it seems that there are still some issues with SP2 and iPod. So I had to roll back SP2 just now ;-( so that I could sync my iPod with my computer. Bummer.