Thursday, July 05, 2007

HA! I got you, wireless network!

Well, I'm at home. I figured out the problem with the wireless network I've been pirating - some genius added another network of the same name near enough that Windows won't play nice. I'm probably at the outer edge of the range of the new one, so the overlap area does affect the owner of either network, but effectively keeps me from accessing either one. My solution? Find another network. There are now about 7 in the neighborhood. Most of them are secure (those people are losers), but I can access one good network, if I go to the other end of the house from my room. It's really not too bad. Not that conducive to work, but if I'd wanted to work, I wouldn't have come home.

I did remember one thing I wanted to mention about the cookout - right before dark, Will "Danger" Robinson and Tony "You Best Stop Dropping My Flag on the Ground Unless You Want My Foot Shoved Someplace Uncomfortable" Saad brought out their instruments. Tony plays a guitar, and not all that poorly. He wasn't playing "Freebird" or anything. Will plays the oboe. Yes, the oboe. I wouldn't know what good or bad oboe sounds like, but it wasn't a horrible screeching, so we'll say it was pretty good.

I can't decide if I'm looking forward to my job because it's going to be awesome or dreading it because it'll effectively end my professional procrastination. I would like to get my thesis finished, keep getting paid, and continue to do nothing. Maybe at my new salary, though, because it's a real job and pays like one. I need an intern to do this programming for me. I'll draw conclusions and write the paper, I just don't want to do all the code-writing it's going to take to get all the graphs done.

Well, I'm tired, so I'm going to get to bed early tonight. Somehow, I can do that at home, but never when I'm where I spend close to 90% of my time. More tomorrow.

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