Firefox and/or this stupid keyboard and/or this stupid flaky motherboard just ate the entry I was writing. I am not happy. I had a good 400-800 words going too. >.>

Well, time to summarize, since I'm not writing it all out again, especially when I can't keep the keyboard working for longer than 10 minutes at a time today. And it was a good entry, too...

As the title suggests, I haven't been doing much other than work, which is why there really hasn't been much to be seen of me online. Class did start this week, but I only managed to make it to class starting today. Would have been yesterday, if not for that stupid speeding ticket I got on the way >.>

Anyways, the events of late, in somewhat chronological order...

Been ordering lots of stuff off Woot! lately... Okay, I only bought two things. I now have real speakers up here rather than the 10 year old set that has no bass nor a working left speaker. I also bought a tabletop monitor stand/keyboard shelf, but it didn't fit on my desk at the angle I wanted it, so it now sits in the basement, with the height too low to operate the shelf because, well, the thing adds way too much height.

I've also been dealing with, as mentioned earlier, a flaky motherboard. The problem being, the PS/2 connectors appear to be on the verge of falling off, and all the USB devices randomly "malfunction" forcing me to unplug them and plug them back in. Since I don't own a USB keyboard, the former problem has been a big issue. I've actually had to use the onscreen keyboard on many occasions in the past week, because I simply had no alternative. As a permanent fix to this problem, I decided to just pick up a new motherboard, and hope the swap doesn't force me to reinstall the OS. While I was at it, I also decided to pick up a new case to go with it, as I've been having ventillation problems with the current one (not to mention the current one is way too freaking big). I ordered these items on Monday around noon, and they arrived just before I left for work on Wednesday, at 1:09pm. o.O Haven't done the swap yet, as I'm going to wait until I get a few time-critical things done first. As a temporary fix to the keyboard thing for the time being, I picked up a PS/2 to USB adapter while I was out at Best Buy picking up a wireless-g PCMCIA card.

Now, the wireless-g PCMCIA card was for my dad's laptop, which is now apparently his to keep. So, on Wednesday, I began working on getting his laptop connected to the wireless network. The big problem I ran into was when I told the OS to connect to our workgroup instead of the company domain, which , since we didn't have any of the local account passwords, caused the laptop to lock down. >.> After hours of screaming at the fact that we now possessed a brick with an LCD screen, suggestions from several people resulted in finding the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor and using it to blank out the local Adminstrator account password. After that, all was good.

Naturally, that had to be followed by being clocked 44 (BS, I couldn't have been going faster than 40) in a 25. The officer was a bit nice and cut it down to a 34 in a 25, reducing the ticket cost to $65 and 1 point - barely. I'm still going to wait for the court notice and show up, in the hopes that I can avoid that point. I'm only a few months away from my previously accumulated 3 points being wiped, and I'd prefer not to have to wait another two years to get a clean driving record again. >.> The time it took for the officer to write the speeding ticket, combined with ridiculously few available parking spaces, made it impossible to get to class on Thursday.

That's about all the notable events since the past entry, except for a couple interesting pages out of the Azumanga 2004 day-to-day calendar. I'll have to scan those later.