The Ramblings of a Hazy Mind

So I had to take down our internet again because our wonderful friends in tech support at Bresnan have no clue what they are talking about (or they are lying to me to protect their jobs). Now although I do know some of the people in tech over there and they are quite knowledgable about the subjects that pertain to using their internet, the guy I ended up talking to was either really confused or acted like it extremely convincingly.

Here is how the conversation basically went:

• Mike:We have three computers on a switch… two of them are working, the third isn’t.
• Tech:You have three computers on a switch… two of them are working, the third isn’t?
• Mike:Yes…….
• Tech:That’s really confusing… only one should work. We don’t support switches.
• Mike:Interesting… so those switches I have been using for the past 4 years with your service were just pretending then?
• Tech:I guess.
• etc. etc.

Needless to say, not the most productive tech support conversation I have held. I ended up calling my friend that works in tech there (who happens to sit behind the afformentioned genius) and trying about 5 things before deciding on a solution that basically makes my computer a router. A bit of a pain in the ass because now my computer has to be on most of the time (at least when my roommates want to use internet) whether I am using it or not, and that will without question raise the temperature of my room like 10 degrees.

Oh well, I guess it’s better than a half functional network.

P.S. Well I decided having my computer on at night waking me up all the time with its incessently loud cooling fans (of which there are and having a disgustingly hot room is not to my liking, so I just gave in and spent the $60 I shouldn’t have had to on a router. Hopefully I can still afford my bills this month!

Today’s class was awesome for a couple of reasons. First of all there were only 4 people there, which for the night class is a very rare occurence. This small number of people changed 2 things about the class. The warmup/cardio workout at the beginning seemed to be a lot harder, and the technqiue section was a lot more effective because Master Saltz could spend more time with each student helping them with their specific corrections on the different kicks where normally he would only be able to give a few pointers every now and then.

Also, today’s class left me feeling even more refreshed than I usually do, which isn’t a bad thing except that I don’t get home until 10:00 P.M. and I feel like I am ready to take on another 12 hours of daylight before I need to sleep again.

I guess I do have some work to catch up on (damn school is taking all my time lately) so it will be a welcome boost in about 4 hours when I would normally be drooping at the keyboard. I just hope this doesn’t mess up my sleep schedule as much as all of my other random hobbies seem to

Well we are finally all settled into our appartment here on S.15th St. in Bozeman and it couldn’t be more relieving to be able to type all of this (since we now also have internet installed as well.) This is officially going to be the second night I have really slept in the appartment because:

• 1: I left my bedding in my sister’s dryer in Belgrade for 5 days
• 2: We have had a gas leak since the day I moved in a week ago up to last night when someone with a brain finally came in a fixed the damn hot water heater.

Thankfully the internet install only took a half hour, although there is still a bit of wiring to do to get the other two roommates’ computers hooked up. That’s gonna have to happen tomorrow afternoon because according to the clock on my computer it is 2 am right now and I need to go to bed.

One last thing though, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (Aug 31st actually) no longer a teenager… scary thought.