This file is going to cover two calls I got today. The two that just plain drove me mad. I still feel bad about them, but thier is little I can do about the first. The second I'll do everything I can to help with though.

So, this woman calls up to create an internet account. But she insists on coming in to get it done. Oh well, it gives the guys up front something to do.

They set her up, and give her an install CD. Oops (explained later).

After returning home, she install it. Here's the fun part. She's got windows 98. The install CD fucks that shit up hardcore. Oops, noboedy asked about that. I'm to blame also, but not fully. So, she calls up after it fucks her computer up totaly. I tell her she needs to reinstall windows. Hehe, she didn't get an install disk when she bought her computer. Opps, Chauk it up to bad luck I guess. So, doing the best I can do, I tell her to get one and call me back. Heh, looks like I'll have to sit through a win 98 install over the phone. FUCK!

Talk about computer iliterage...gesh! That doesn't even begin to explain it, we are talking computer ignorent. Dumb as a rock!

Then we come to the next one. After work, I was supposto setup our service on an old 68k mac. Cool, no problem. They already had the software. All I had to do was punch in the numbers. That part was easy. But then I go to test it...hehe, they don't have a modem! The girl didn't even know what a modem was :( I explain it to her, and still no luck. I mention that she will need to buy one to use our service. We run to best buy to grab one...they don't have shit for externals...just fucking pnp shit that's internal, and only works on a POS windows box. Fuck.

Every other place that sells hardware like we where looking for was closed. Must have had something to do with the fact it's a holaday weekend. FUCK!

Then after we return to her house I notice that she doesn't even have a web browser. Fuck again. I told her what she needs, and where to get it. So, that's good. I'll get her a copy of netscape for 68k mac later. Probably sent on disk or something. If I can make it fit on disks.

If not, I'll stop by her house again with my notebook, and transfer it the hard way. Heh, I will get this resolved. Or, at least I'll do my best.

Other than those two bits thier, things at work have been going just great. I'm enjoying it very much. I love working with everybody else there. It's smooth. Today I rocked on callbacks. Cycled through most, if not all of them a couple of times, and took care of many of them. Kick ass.

I'm currently sitting in 'the coffee house' just killing time. Hmm, killing time for what? I dunno, thier is little to do when i get home. Brightsun is asleap, and I don't feel like surfing the web yet. Heh, I do it all day at work :)

I think the guys at work have accepted me into part of thier family. The IN family. Made up of a bunch of social misfits who work well together, and seem to enjoy high stress lives.

Noticed my webpage up on the 'doze box early on in the evening, wonder who was looking at it. It was open to fuckme.html. I left it that way, just because I had no reason to close it.

Paul is leaving us, so I'll be the only mac guy in the place then. Also, Paul, and i have to teach a class for the other guys on how to setup a mac for our service. That should be interesting. Also random mac repairs. Zap the pram, rebuild the desktop, force quit an app. The normal stuff a non macuser doesn't even know about ;) I've also noticed that we don't have any documentation on FreePPP. The best way to connect a mac to the net. This weekend, I plan on writeing up a website that explains it all. Simple, and easy. With lots of pretty pictures, and such. Make it easy, so that the other tech support guys can just walk through it with ease. I should get some good credit points for doint that :)

Anything else that comes up will just be dealt with in a timely basis. None of these problems are realy all that hard, it's just a matter of getting the user to get thier computer to do our bidding. Fun stuff I tell you.

Hmm, I also need an ssh client for my pilot, just in case I need to do some remote admin from a payphone. Who knows, it may happen!

Not too much else of intrest, hmm, maby a few items. I like mikeb, but he's a bit wierd. He says that as long as he's not yelling at me, I'm doing good. But sometimes I wonder. Dunno, I'm the type that likes feedback. Heh, that's my only complaint thier.

Steve...god...I fear asking him questions. Today I needed a file deleted, and he was like "why?". Dunno, it was just the way he said it that put the fear of god in me for some odd reason.

Everything else is cool. Heh, apparently some of the guys are looking up to me a bit. That's cool. But I'm not usto that at all. Mostly usto being looked down uppon for my various skills. Being the 'master' of every obscure OS that exists. LOL, I've used almost everything out thier...I still don't know what the true OS is yet. Maby linus, maby MacOS. Those are tops in my book. Well, just about any unix except AIX is cool with me.

The dislike for AIX came up when I was young, and my first shell acount. The sysadmin was a total BOFH, and didn't even give the users access to a compiler! Man was that a drag. heh, I had to use a bug in lynx to even get to a command prompt. LOL Navix...eww...

Cute girl just locked eyes with me for a few seconds, and smiled. Hmm, if I wasn't so socialy inept I'd know what to do in a situation like this. All I know, is that it would probably not involve writeing about it on my pilot.

Today I got stuck on duck. Duck is slow, but usable. A 25mhz sun...I wouldn't mind having it ;) A hell of a lot better than my notebook...danm I need a better unix box at home. Remote X sessions rule!

I'm trying to not work myself to death like I tend to when I've got a job I love. It's hard though. Especialy with this one. the diffrence between work and play is little. Thier are two schools of though that I have come up with on this so far.

1. I just work

2.I just play and have complex rules

You can see the problem I'm having with this. Hehe, or at least you can imagine. But it's not a bad thing yet...I'll know when it is. Or, at least I hope I will. Worst case senerio, somebody else will, and I will be alerted to it.

Last night I wrote three files...that's almost a record for me. I haven't done that for a very long time. Since I was stuck in kansas beng homeless. Wow

20 minuits till I have to leave here...not that they are closing, but after that, they shut down the smokeing section. I don't do non-smokeing sections. It's just not in me. Even to the point that I rarely eat at a resturant I can't smoke at. Except for a select few. But that's either because thier food is just that good, or I like the owners. A prime example is the bricker coffeehouse in beatrice. While not being much of a coffeeshop anymore, they still have some realy good brews. But where they realy shine is thier food. It's most exelent, especaly thier soups.

Odd, the moved us to the front, and are letting us smoke. That's diffrent. Maby a slight change in policy. I haven't realy stayed her this late in quite a while. Things change.

I need more coffee, but thier is a huge line to get it. I'll just wait here till then. Oh, the girl from earler came up to me...just asked what I was typeing. But at lest she said something. Boy do I suck, or at least I must. To this day, I've never realy asked a girl out. At least not in RL. A couple days ago, I asked a girl out over the net. But that was a bit diffrent. I already knew her, and it wasn't much of a romantic thing. Oh well, nice girl anyway.

I need a couple network cards. One for my notebook, and another for my mac. Both will be hard to find, and probably expensive. But it will make my life so much easyer. True networking, IP masquerading. It's gonna rock. The entire household will be able to share one modem. Total coolness.

Thier are currently some wierd guys standing outside doing all sorts of thing to attract attention. How childish, pretending to shoot up, nnort, and a myrad of other distastfull things. Hopefully they are gone by the time I leave. I just don't want to deal with scum like that.

Some people are just so concrned about looking good. They sit and stare at themselves in the miror. Quite vain, to the point of being a ventrable sin.

Depending on what happens, I may get in a game of chess tonnite. That would be very nice. Haven't had a good game of chess in way too long. But, the only way that's going to happen, is if I ask. That may not happen...danmit, I wish, I wish, I wish...so bloody socialy inept. As I told mike during the interview "I'm much better on the phone". On the phone I can talk to anybody about anything. It's so easy. It's not a real. Very much like internet chat. I see it more as a game. Just a big, and complex toy to play with. But, not nearly as complex as RL interactions. Those can get a little wierd sometimes.

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