Hack Attack

Well I almost have my desktop back to some semblance of sanity. There have been some delights.

Ok, the Intel 945G integrated audio is pure Satan. It requires an insane amount of finagling to get it working. Eventually I randomly started running windows update patch files that were in the install directory. And boom, suddenly it starts detecting the audio. Neither Intel, Dell, or Sigmatel was a bit of help on any of this.

Yes, I spent something like 8 or 10 hours working on getting a sound card to install. Really.

The other tidbit was that apparently either Office 2003 or the Office 07 beta left litter in my Outlook in the form of unremovable rules. So I can't use my old default of Windows XP. So I'm running beta 07 and then I have to rifle through my records to find the correct key for this piece of hardware so I can reinstall Office 2003.

Office 07 is a hideous muddle by the way. There has been no significant change in office since really the 95 version. Tidbits here and there, but this changes the entire menu system. It's impossible to find anything.

Hack Attack

Well I almost have my desktop back to some semblance of sanity. There have been some delights.

Ok, the Intel 945G integrated audio is pure Satan. It requires an insane amount of finagling to get it working. Eventually I randomly started running windows update patch files that were in the install directory. And boom, suddenly it starts detecting the audio. Neither Intel, Dell, or Sigmatel was a bit of help on any of this.

Yes, I spent something like 8 or 10 hours working on getting a sound card to install. Really.

The other tidbit was that apparently either Office 2003 or the Office 07 beta left litter in my Outlook in the form of unremovable rules. So I can't use my old default of Windows XP. So I'm running beta 07 and then I have to rifle through my records to find the correct key for this piece of hardware so I can reinstall Office 2003.

Office 07 is a hideous muddle by the way. There has been no significant change in office since really the 95 version. Tidbits here and there, but this changes the entire menu system. It's impossible to find anything.

Weekend Update

The weekend was a weekend. It was not very pleasant out and I was very "off" because of basically not sleeping Thursday night. Plus I was all freaky worrying about whether or not my network was safe or I was going to walk into a nightmare today. My irritation about the mich/ferrick thing segwayed into our beloved fuhrer starting up the hate machine against gay people. It's always nice to be reminded by the leader of the "free" world that you're a danger to society to brighten up your day.

Janna was in a similar cheery mood and we were bouncing off of each other.

So really, we didn't get up to very much.

The one thing we did get to was we went to Aye Caramba Saturday night, which was good. We tried their guacamole, which was fantastic, especially with their fresh cooked chips. I had enchiladas, which were good, but insanely spicy even for me! Janna got a batch of tacos. I don't think I've babbled about AC, but they're a very wholesome Mexican place. The tacos are in a fresh corn tortilla, not a cracky fried one. And they have real meat, which is marinated and slow cooked. None of this is at all like what you would find in even a "good" tex-mex style restaurant.

Oh and we got three separate dump runs in. Yes, we actually made a dump run just for cleaning out the refrigerator. Scary eh?

And I obsessively played Puzzle Pirates. I've found a decent enough Crew. I keep thinking the grass might be greener elsewhere though. I kind of like the anonymity at the moment though.

Weekend Update

The weekend was a weekend. It was not very pleasant out and I was very "off" because of basically not sleeping Thursday night. Plus I was all freaky worrying about whether or not my network was safe or I was going to walk into a nightmare today. My irritation about the mich/ferrick thing segwayed into our beloved fuhrer starting up the hate machine against gay people. It's always nice to be reminded by the leader of the "free" world that you're a danger to society to brighten up your day.

Janna was in a similar cheery mood and we were bouncing off of each other.

So really, we didn't get up to very much.

The one thing we did get to was we went to Aye Caramba Saturday night, which was good. We tried their guacamole, which was fantastic, especially with their fresh cooked chips. I had enchiladas, which were good, but insanely spicy even for me! Janna got a batch of tacos. I don't think I've babbled about AC, but they're a very wholesome Mexican place. The tacos are in a fresh corn tortilla, not a cracky fried one. And they have real meat, which is marinated and slow cooked. None of this is at all like what you would find in even a "good" tex-mex style restaurant.

Oh and we got three separate dump runs in. Yes, we actually made a dump run just for cleaning out the refrigerator. Scary eh?

And I obsessively played Puzzle Pirates. I've found a decent enough Crew. I keep thinking the grass might be greener elsewhere though. I kind of like the anonymity at the moment though.