Happy Thursday! How about this cray cray weather we've been having? It was summer hot last week, and then it got real foggy, and then there were thunderstorms!! And today we almost had a bit of each. No thunder, but you never know what's coming next.
In my estimation, I'll be finishing this first segment of my schooling at least a week ahead of time. And that's not staying late or anything. Just reading and reading and reading. One chapter left in the first book.
Um yeah! So that's doing great. People are starting to have names, and I've passed two tests. I know all about taking notes. I'll keep you updated.
Started the next season of Doctor Who! Matt Smith! I was on edge about starting a new Doctor, but I'll be happy to spoil you that I think he's just fine. Charming and manic and ridiculous, but most of all he suits the new direction. Tweedy bow-tiey fun.
On the other hand, we all went and saw Cabin in the Woods last week, and that was not as dreamy as I might have hoped. Opinions do differ, though, so don't let me keep you from seeing it. I just didn't see the point.
Now I'm playing LoL with Carolyn and Steven, and that's my week in a nutshell.
-Steph
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Blog, then sleep
Happy Thursday! Guess who is going to bed in like five minutes! It's me! Guess who has a real-life weekend coming up! It's meeee!
So school started this week! Getting up at 6:30 is like... who am I anymore. Get an hour for lunch, and that's a great time for naps. Leave at 4, come home and play video games until the sleep time. It's not bad.
The first couple of days I learned how to do stuff in DOS. So if you ever need to make a bootable floppy disk or, say, create a batch file, I can do that for you. It's all typing, like a typing game, and I love keyboard commands and all that, so it's actually pretty fun if you know what you're doing. Not going to use it in everyday life, but it'll come up.
So they say. It's at your own pace style classwork, right? So I've got two weeks to master DOS (done) and read chapters 1-5. After slogging through chapter 1 and trying to do the homework and realizing I still didn't know half the answers, I got pretty down. I generally don't absorb information the first time through, at least not so that it'll stick. So I said, you gotta read this twice anyway, so just take the pressure off and just read it for the abstract information.
So I spent the last two days just reading through chapter five. Then I went back to chapter one, read through the homework questions, noted which ones I had no clue about, and then set in to take notes. Re-reading and transcribing, lodged a bit more knowledge in there. This is working.
Got through chapters 1 and 2, started chapter 3. So I'd say I've got two or three days more work ahead of me to grasp all this stuff, which puts me at at least three days ahead of schedule.
So that's the plan. I guess after this software book there's a hardware book, and there may be other books, and there are projects on the computers in different areas and about different tasks. But that's my strategy for right now, and I'm a student again.
I got this. -Steph
The first couple of days I learned how to do stuff in DOS. So if you ever need to make a bootable floppy disk or, say, create a batch file, I can do that for you. It's all typing, like a typing game, and I love keyboard commands and all that, so it's actually pretty fun if you know what you're doing. Not going to use it in everyday life, but it'll come up.
So they say. It's at your own pace style classwork, right? So I've got two weeks to master DOS (done) and read chapters 1-5. After slogging through chapter 1 and trying to do the homework and realizing I still didn't know half the answers, I got pretty down. I generally don't absorb information the first time through, at least not so that it'll stick. So I said, you gotta read this twice anyway, so just take the pressure off and just read it for the abstract information.
So I spent the last two days just reading through chapter five. Then I went back to chapter one, read through the homework questions, noted which ones I had no clue about, and then set in to take notes. Re-reading and transcribing, lodged a bit more knowledge in there. This is working.
Got through chapters 1 and 2, started chapter 3. So I'd say I've got two or three days more work ahead of me to grasp all this stuff, which puts me at at least three days ahead of schedule.
So that's the plan. I guess after this software book there's a hardware book, and there may be other books, and there are projects on the computers in different areas and about different tasks. But that's my strategy for right now, and I'm a student again.
I got this. -Steph
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Compter,d
Happy Thueday! I'm back! Although not entirely, but you wonldn't know. You mihgt, if my spelling's real bad. Right now I'm plugged into the flatscreen in the living room, and everything is reeaaaaal small from down here. I'm pretty sure I misspelled Thursday.
Yeah, so everything is up and running, other than it's the wrong room, and I don't have the video card or firewire card or blu-ray drive in yet. The important part is that it works! I swapped out a motherboard and reseated a CPU and somehow I didn't botch it up in the slightest!
We did have to reinstall Windows (twice) and copying over my gigs of media took all evening, but just about everything is in working order again, and that's what matters. I can play video games that aren't Bejeweled again!!!
Many thanks to my helpful big bro who talks about all this tech stuff like he came pre-loaded with wikipedia or something. Looking forward to sounding like that myself one of these days.
Pivotal week, this was. Aside from all the video gaming I didn't do (I baked and I read Shakespeare and I made potato salad and I went for walks and went to sleep in the same calendar day as I woke up etc etc) Tomorrow I've got a financial interview at the tech school so hopefully next week I might start? I mean, worst case scenario it'll be the week after that, but in either case it's srs bsns all o' a sudden. I also sorta am on unemployment, but I have to do the phone interview to say yes, I am going to a training school so I can get a real job and start contributing to society again, please and thank you.
But look at all this stuff I learned already! I know know how to use a multimeter to test a power supply... and other things! It's amazing! My intellect knows no bounds. I take the computer infos in one ear and I spit it out the other side. I have no idea what I'm saying anymore.
What I mean is, I think I'm ready for this.
-Steph
Yeah, so everything is up and running, other than it's the wrong room, and I don't have the video card or firewire card or blu-ray drive in yet. The important part is that it works! I swapped out a motherboard and reseated a CPU and somehow I didn't botch it up in the slightest!
We did have to reinstall Windows (twice) and copying over my gigs of media took all evening, but just about everything is in working order again, and that's what matters. I can play video games that aren't Bejeweled again!!!
Many thanks to my helpful big bro who talks about all this tech stuff like he came pre-loaded with wikipedia or something. Looking forward to sounding like that myself one of these days.
Pivotal week, this was. Aside from all the video gaming I didn't do (I baked and I read Shakespeare and I made potato salad and I went for walks and went to sleep in the same calendar day as I woke up etc etc) Tomorrow I've got a financial interview at the tech school so hopefully next week I might start? I mean, worst case scenario it'll be the week after that, but in either case it's srs bsns all o' a sudden. I also sorta am on unemployment, but I have to do the phone interview to say yes, I am going to a training school so I can get a real job and start contributing to society again, please and thank you.
But look at all this stuff I learned already! I know know how to use a multimeter to test a power supply... and other things! It's amazing! My intellect knows no bounds. I take the computer infos in one ear and I spit it out the other side. I have no idea what I'm saying anymore.
What I mean is, I think I'm ready for this.
-Steph
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Computerless
Happy Thursday! This one will be quick because I'm battling raging infection in an open wound (!!) and it's just the very slightest bit uncomfortable to type.
This week I did important things like file for unemployment and also an amended tax return. The good news on the latter is, $$$! The bad news is, when I add a 3 and a 6, I'm apparently unfazed when I see the result is 7.
Speaking of par for the course, in Vegas somewhere there's a precious little indoor minigolf course. Themed like KISS. Everything glows in the dark! I made at least two holes-in-one, but lost by missing the last ramp (which was Gene Simmons' face belching smoke) all but entirely.
Speaking of Vegas, they have the best Chinatown. It's like, the variety of a huge city in the space of a small town. In the middle of a desert, to boot. Pretty much my style.
Oh and then I got back and my computer had died. On the upside, it being dead gave me the chance to discover that poor math skills situation. It also gave me the opportunity to break open my fix computers! workbook and teach me how to test a power supply. So that's alright, I guess. I'm using my mom's right now. Say hello, Mom!
OK then. More fun, more snacks. Another day.
-Steph
This week I did important things like file for unemployment and also an amended tax return. The good news on the latter is, $$$! The bad news is, when I add a 3 and a 6, I'm apparently unfazed when I see the result is 7.
Speaking of par for the course, in Vegas somewhere there's a precious little indoor minigolf course. Themed like KISS. Everything glows in the dark! I made at least two holes-in-one, but lost by missing the last ramp (which was Gene Simmons' face belching smoke) all but entirely.
Speaking of Vegas, they have the best Chinatown. It's like, the variety of a huge city in the space of a small town. In the middle of a desert, to boot. Pretty much my style.
Oh and then I got back and my computer had died. On the upside, it being dead gave me the chance to discover that poor math skills situation. It also gave me the opportunity to break open my fix computers! workbook and teach me how to test a power supply. So that's alright, I guess. I'm using my mom's right now. Say hello, Mom!
OK then. More fun, more snacks. Another day.
-Steph
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