Sure, why not!
Well, not really. But I had a bag of frozen blackberries and really wanted them kinda shortcake style. Alas, I do not have the necessary ingredients to prepare from scratch, nor do I have the kitchen staple Bisquick. What I do have is a big ass bag of Krusteaz pancake mix. So, I improvised.
Using the standard biscuit recipe for Bisquick actually works pretty well for the pancake mix too! I had a feeling it would. Add the berries mixed with a little sugar and cinnamon and top with a bit of your favorite whipped topping and BOOM! The perfect desert to go along with Hobo Mash.
So, down at CCRM this week hooking up the wLAN.
First day? Just about THE most frustrating thing I’ve ever done. No sleep the night before and me to stubborn to RTFM lead to some serious frustration. I couldn’t get anything to connect outside of about 100′ from the main antenna and the power cord to my laptop finally split all the way, rendering the lappy pretty much useless.
2nd day, I finally did some reading. And some tweaking. Then I tweaked some more and PRESTO! I’m connected. right about 300 meters too (if I had to guess) with a strong signal and useable speed. I wouldn’t try Skype over it or anything, but email works just fine and I pulled a 20MB file down in about 5 minutes. Considering the latency I’m dealing with, and the speed I had to crank the access points down to in order to get the distance (1mbs), I’m pretty happy.
Back to the first night for a sec, ’cause this is funny. Chillin’ with the ‘rents watching the Olympics. Figure skating if you must know. And Dad starts fully going off on Dick Buttons. I guess this oldster was a figure skater circa 1943 or some such and his comments during the performances weren’t so much what you would expect to hear from a television announcer. More like what you would hear from a bitchy coach standing on the boards all bitter because his skating career was cut short from that nasty accident with a Jim Beam bottle and cousin Fred. I swear, I thought Dad was going to start throwing shit at the TV. He is, I’m fairly certain, going to email NBC and file an official complaint. Anyway, that was awesome.
Back to the 2nd day, or, night.
My brother gets here and I try to hook his lappy up on the wireless network. Well the pony tailed admins at his company have him locked down pretty good, plus there is all of this Novell crap everywhere, so no dice. I tried with Mom’s, but really, I’d rather be in the dentist chair without novacaine after eating an entire box of twinkies then try to configure winME network settings. I’ll cut to the chase and say it didn’t work.
I mention I’d try on my lappy, but the power cord broke. Dad says “well, let me take a look, maybe I can fix it”. Dad is way handier than I am, which I know I have mentioned before. Anyway, after about 1/2 hour he was able to reconnect the power cord and SHAZAAM!
Dad fixed the lappy.
Oh yea, the wireless? I did all of this on it.
From where I sit right now, I can VNC into at least 10 PC’s, adjust 4 access points and a router, not to mention dial into 9 car washes plus the server. All while I sit on the porch looking out over Lake Mohave.
Yea, not too bad eh?
I’m not sure about the rest of you, but my geek services always seem to be wanted more at the beginning of a year than at the end. Resolutions? Money in the budget? Who knows? It makes me more money, so I’m not going to complain.
Some years I’m busier than others, and 1 or 2 that haven’t been so hot. This year is off to what could be a promising start.
On the go already is 1 fairly large web project. Even kinda high profile. No, I can’t tell you what it is. I said no. Really. Stop asking, I can’t tell you. Well, when it’s done and I get final approval, then maybe I’ll tell you. If you already know because you have done some preliminary Mac/Safari* testing for me, please don’t spoil it for everyone else.
Next week I get to install my first wireless LAN. That’s Local Area Network to the less geek of you. I’ve already designed the layout and know where all of the parts are going to go. The parts have arrived so I just have to go install them and hope everything works!
Cool stuff going on for the Podcast too. This is another one of those things I can’t tell you, but it might have slipped out during conversations. Again, please, no spoilers.
Olympics? My only thing to report is teh lad and I got accidentally sucked into watching about 45 seconds of ice dancing. Ice dancing? An olympic sport? And they dropped baseball? Whatever. Oh, don’t worry, we guy’d up/geek out by watching 4 back to back episodes of ST:TNG. Yea, ’cause that’s how we roll.
*Safari I’m starting to hate, but alas I must save that for another post.
I know what I said 2 years ago, but this year I thought I’d try something different.
I actually had a really cool thing all planned out, but money (f’ing money) got in the way.
So, I did the next best thing; Sent flowers via remote control. No, not mounted on the back of an R/C car or anything, but I actually made a phone call to a florist out of town and had flowers delivered.
Yea, look at me go! 
I am going to preface this by saying: The following is in no way a jab, a dig, a dis or any other negative commentary concerning the sport of curling. It is only a statement of fact. Please read the following with a lesser air of sarcasm normally required for posts at w(t)f. Thank you.
That being said…
I have waited all weekend to be able to watch curling on TV here in the States. All weekend.
I go to check the listings for tonight, since curling started today. Nothing. Not until Tuesday at 12:00AM PST (that’s midnight) will there be in curling on.
Talk about feeling like an ass for being late to the DVR party. DOH!
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