Red Hat Enterprise Linux (hell) that is.
Quick update, school is back in session and I am a full time student. I'm only taking 5 classes. Lucky for me, one of them is Exercise aka gym, so in effect, I'm taking 4 actual classes. One of them just happens to be a Red Hat class. Nice, I was never a fan of the Red Hat distro. At any rate, my desk is mega-geeked out with 2 computers parked around it. I managed to snag the mother-in-law's fairly new Dell and cram a "old" 40 gig drive in and install RHEL and use as a dedicated computer for this class. Much better than the 2 old gateway computers setting in the closet. At any rate, this is cutting into my homework time. GTG
My phone rang this morning on the dresser while we were all sitting in the living room watching cartoons with Evan and checking our email and stuff. Since I didn't answer, I heard the Motorola "missed call beep" a short time later. I had a new voice mail. I was kind of concerned. Who was calling at 9:45 on a Sunday morning? I did have an appointment this afternoon to replace a faulty wireless router for a client; was he calling to cancel? This is where everything goes down hill real quick. It was a pre-recorded message telling me some b.s. website to visit for the latest stock picks that are expected to have up to 750% growth. Great! Now I am getting spam recordings on my cell phone. Now I am fully expecting messages to save on my meds and increase my manhood. At least our phone plan has free incoming calls. Damn!
My car that is! The guy working on my car calls me last night and tells me my car is ready and also that he has some good news. "Turns out I owe you some money"... what?!
He was able to fix the problem with the old transmission and didn't need to replace the whole thing and luckily for him, the new tranny hadn't even shipped yet; I had already paid him for a new tranny. Turns out the problem was what I was thinking, a bearing had gone out. He replace the bearing and that cured the noise. So last night, I got my car and some money back.
...that is written by me.
There go the holidays. After what seems like ages, its back to work tomorrow. It was fun while it lasted. I'm expecting a call any day now from the guy working on my car to tell me its done. Both Becky and I will be happy to get my car back. She has stated quite a few times that being a one vehicle family sucks and I wholeheartedly agree. At least I know that I have her blessing on getting a motorcycle since she got me motorcycle boots and a leather jacket for Christmas. As far as bike choices, I'd prefer something newer with fuel injection, since I've never had a vehicle with a carburetor. Given my budget, I've pretty much narrowed my first choice to the Yamaha R6. The earlier years weren't fuel injected, but as long as it starts right up, thats fine by me :)
Ok, I finally finished all my classes this week and even got all my grades posted on friday. Two A's and a B. Not too shabby in my opinion. The B was in my trigonometry class, the hardest math I've EVER taken. I swear the teacher started talkin' in a foreign language for a bunch of the stuff. Stuff like radians, theta, omega, and some other crap I've never heard of. But I pulled off a B and I'm happy with that. Now the funny part; I obviously managed an A in my art class and here is the good part. Out of 17 people in my art class, only 5 other people besides me actually completed the course. Now to me, that speaks volumes about how insane this teacher was.
On another note, progress is finally being made on my car. I decided to go with a new transmission and hopefully when the old one gets swapped out I can sell it on ebay and cover some of the cost of the labor for replacing it. As far as transmission choice, I settled on a the "world class" T5. It is almost as heavy duty as the transmission thats in there now and it has a bigger overdrive so maybe I'll get a few more feet per gallon. Now, hopefully in a week or 2 I will finally get the Mustang back.
Well, thanksgiving is over and Christmas is closing in. I am now without a car since a bearing my transmission (i think) has decided to be noisy. So noisy in fact, that it is louder than my exhaust. That is loud. I took it to one dude and he says its "on its last leg" and want to replace it. I asked about rebuild and he just kinda talks like its just easier to replace whole transmission. It aint cheaper though! It'll be around 1500 bucks to put a decent replacement in there that would actually hold up to a 5.0's torque, and I want my Tremec rebuilt but can't seem to find a shop that will quote me a price up front. They gotta open it up first and check it out. Nice. I'd try to rebuild it myself, but I don't have the tools or time and not necessarily all the mechanical knowledge. In the meantime, Becky and I are carpooling. I guess it save a little gas. She says we can afford to fix it next year, which of course is just around the corner :)
Plus next year, I will finally get a motorcycle. Well since I've been wanting one for about a few years now and actually got my endorsement and took a motorcycle safety courses. The course was one of Becky's stipulations toward me getting a motorbike and I seriously had no problem with that. It was a really useful course in my opinion. Now, I just hope to find be a CBR600RR for cheap next year...
Ok, portion of the current art project I am working on now requires me to mix 2 different paint colors using colors specified by my instructor to make a different color. In this case, I'm starting with orange and blue. I told my instructor early on I'm red/green color blind. This class is online, so I have to email my work to her. She obviously blew me out of the water on my first try. I reminded her that I was colorblind, since I didn't expect her to remember. She then replies with comment in her email : "I am a little concerned because you knew this was a COLOR and design course and your condition with your color blindness. However, we do have to make this work."
HOLY SHIT! That was harsh.I couldn't even reply to that because I was so pissed me off. I got Becky to reply for me since I would of gotten in trouble if I had replied and I'm not going to ruin my college career over this crazy bitch. Becky reminded me that the course catalog and syllabus says nothing about mixing paint colors.
We have been trying for about 8 hours to get the paint the color she wants with no luck so far. I hope we can get this shit this weekend. I will need more beer!
This post is more or less pointing out a feature of blogger.com. At the top right corner of the page, there is a button that says Next Blog. A few weeks ago I was feeling adventurous/bored and decided to start clicking the next blog link. There is some interesting stuff going on here. Some pages are just normal everyday folks starting out a new blog like me. Then there some pro looking pages that basically have no content and just some flashy graphics, big deal. Then there are blogs from folks in other countries. Just tonite, I click the link and got a whole page in Russian. Whoa,
they lost me real quick on that one. I didn't know this blogger thing was that widespread; ignorant me. I've found blogs in a bunch of languages. There's all kinds of crazy talk up here. Another cool thing is if you don't like the next blog, just hit backspace and try the link again for another random blog.
SuddenLink, formerly Cox has decided to make things difficult for us cox subscribers. They are doing away with the cox web hosting as of today and I think email will follow very shortly. It only really affects me since I have my profile pic hosted by cox. Well, now its bye bye to members.cox.net. Thats basically it for me, I moved over to my old geocities site that I created back in the old days, 1999 that is. Becky on the other hand is gonna get the email shaft, I think. I tried to stick to a free webmail that won't go away any time soon for my online ordering and other mostly important crap. Too many internet companies get gobbled up by other internet companies. To name a few, Cox got eaten by SuddenLink, Geocities by Yahoo, and the latest and greatest Youtube by Google. As long as Excite doesn't go under, I should be good for a while. Its the email I use on my resume :)
