Thursday, January 24, 2013

Coming Along

Happy Thursday!  This week I wasn't so tired at all at work, so that's an improvement.  It's getting better, too, now that I can actually do a lot of the daily tasks.  Good times.

Also this week I gutted Carolyn's computer and rebuilt it.  They got her a nice MSI board, which had a BIOS with a GUI that recognized the hardware upgrade so that we didn't even have to reinstall Windows!  Easy peasy. 

Also we're learning Tekkit, which is challenging but fun.

Um and nope that's it.  Good night.

-Steph

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Business Casual Thursday

Happy Thursday!  In about three minutes I'm going to sleep.

This morning I passed the Security+.  There were some "performance based" questions or whatever, which were about dragging boxes into the right order and manipulating drop down menus that initially threw me off guard.  But they were all on things I actually knew, so that felt pretty good.  Shocking, but the fact that I took the time to study the port and transport protocol for TFTP actually came in handy.

So, done with certs for the time being.  I have a Server 2008 study guide to slosh through, but I'm going to take my sweet time with that beast.

Started work this week.  Just like with starting school, I honestly don't think I'm really ever going to be aware that this is how I'm spending 40 hours a week.  Well, part time after training.  But oh man.

I have to get up at 6 because there's a mini commute, but yesterday and the day before I was in bed during the 8 o'clock hour.  Today, too, if I quit typing.  I thought the extra sleep would help, but so far I've been dead tired as soon as 10AM rolls around, and it doesn't get better until about 40 minutes after I wake up the next morning.

The work isn't actually going to be that hard, but there just is a ton of stuff to understand and know and be generally aware of that I need to ....do all of the above.  After four days I think I have the basics, but it's going to be a while before I've got a handle on everything.

Onwards and upwards, that's what I always say.  But right now, sleep.

-Steph

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Back to Work

Happy Thursday!  Next Monday at 8 AM sharp I am reporting to work as a Helpdesk Support Specialist I.  It's the start of something new!

I don't really know what else to say.  I'm going to have to start getting up a half hour earlier.  This first week is 40 hours of training, but I'm going to be part time after that, until such a time as I can do it full time.  Next week was also supposed to be my last week of school, but now I'm going to have to postpone that, haha.  Gonna take Security+ soon.

Remember when I started school?  I said "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."  Haha, do I still remember how to do that?  NOPE.  But will I ever need to?  NOPE.  That's the secret of computers.

You really only need to know how to use them for how you want to.  The rest of this stuff is just for show.

So before school I had upgraded my motherboard and CPU.  Since then I have sourced and installed RAM in Carolyn's computer, installed and uninstalled a CPU upgrade, installed a new motherboard for the new CPU, uninstalled the cooling assembly and reinstalled a new one; troubleshot and installed new RAM in my mom's laptop; learned how to use Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Server 2003, Server 2008; purchased a Windows 8 tablet; confirmed my WPM is 70~75; learned how to scan documents into .pdfs; defragged and updated computers for the school district; read 6 textbooks; obtained two CompTIA certifications and a third shortly; was a part of a student council; and got a entry-level job in an industry I knew nothing about 10 months ago that pays more than twice what I was earning in retail.

In that time I also read approximately 10 non-textbooks; wrote 50,077 words for fun; started writing and designing a card-based table-top RPG; started liking boba; started following esports; beat Borderlands 2 and watched a whole anime series; learned how to play the jaw harp; spoke in a fake Russian accent at least 50% of the time; and cleaned my room maybe thrice.

Yikes.  Goodnight.

-Steph

Thursday, January 03, 2013

Hello You

Happy Thursday!  Look I'm on time again yaaay.

It might have something to do with me getting up before 7, but I'm soooo sleepy today.  Just flat out all day sleepy.  I even came home after my morning adventure and took an hour and a half nap.  All I've wanted to do since is sleep.  Buh.

How were holidays?  Christmas was quick and fun, I got a lot of useful things like a soldering station and work clothes.  Didn't finish enough of my game to have anyone try the pre-alpha, but it's still coming along. 

At New Year's, Sam came over and we all had a lil party.  Video games and spiked Dr Pepper oh yeah.  We had a lot of good drunken conversations about friendship and what Beth's Digidestined crest should be. 

Last year I tumblr'd a sort of list of new year goals, and looking at them now I see I accomplished none of them, but actually made a quite a bit of progress:  I chugged down a bunch of books before I started writing my game; I started sitting full-time, so I had some backward steps on my fitness status but there's still time; I did find a good job but had to wait til this year to start it lol; I didn't become a police volunteer but I will be a contractor for the Navy soon so I'm counting that; I didn't quite finish the first draft of my novel but I did get another 20k or so words closer.  Not actually a bad year, all considered.

I also watched the entirety of Doctor Who this year, including the classic stuff.  Oh man. 

Onwards and upwards, and all that.

-Steph