My ramblings...

Ok, Ok, I know I have not updated in a really long time and I am sure many of you are expecting a long update. I really hate to disappoint you but this will be somewhat short. I am really not in the mood to update but I also have been catching a lot of flack about not updating.

I really haven’t had a ton of stuff going on since my last update. Classes started today/yesterday. I have a writing class, so I will be typing plenty of papers by the end of the semester. My instructor is a grad student who is majoring in fine arts. To put it simple he is a poet and he is teaching a technical writing class for engineers. To put it in his words we “... are fucked!”. My other class is a “bottleneck” class meaning that it is a prerequisite to all of the other computer class I will be taking. To top it off it is a programming class using JAVA. I have not programmed with JAVA in about 1.5 – 2 years. So step one will be to relearn JAVA.

Finally got our internet working. We got our DSL modem the other day we also went and bought a wireless router from BestBuy. I got the modem hooked up the other day directly to my desktop tring to be the tortoise and not the hare. I wanted to get and know that we had a connection before I tried the router. Well, got and made the connection no problem. Today I was going to hook the router up to the internet so that Heather could get on the net with her laptop. Got everything hooked up and no internet connection. I tried for some time and finally broke down and called tech support. I of course got India and talked to Habeeb. He had me go through all of the things I just tried and to no avail. He then proceeds to tell me that I have typed in the username and password incorrectly or I am not using the correct username. Not two minutes earlier I reconnected the modem to my computer and using the same username and password connected to the internet with out a problem while on the phone with him. I then ask him about a encryption requirement. He puts me on hold and comes back to tell me that it is my username and I need to contact my ISP. I asked him for his supervisor. After talking to Habeeb 2 and doing several different things with him he decides to elevate my call to level 2 support and those guys are suppose to call me in the next 24-48 hours. Hopefully English will not be a second language for them.

Well that is about all I have to say for now. I will update some more tomorrow perhaps.

- Larry