Well, this weekend, I've got a handful of things I have planned, but working is not one of them. Unfortunately, neither is celebrating Labor Day.
Today, I was running late to the office, but everything ended up being super-awesome. I brought my filing buddies drinks from Starbucks, finished restoring a workstation that tanked, modded a full-height PCI NIC to fit a half-height small-form-factor computer, fixed a Blackberry, unjammed a behemoth of a HP LaserJet printer (funny how a stray scrap of paper can jam something so huge), translated for an I
ndian client (Engrish-to-English), mounted the haphazardly-stacked networking equipment in the server closet, and securely erased a couple hard drives the D.O.D. way (obliteration via hammer).
Pretty successful day, if you ask me.
I finished up today by "refurbishing" a 13-year-old electronic typewriter (not exactly vintage, yet) for Dad's office. I disassembled the whole thing, cleaned finger grit off the keys, and Cheez-Its out from under the keyboard, and dunked the rest of the non-volatile parts in soap-water. Oh, AND it got put back together (I surprised myself). Yup, great finish to my super-productive day.
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In a couple hours, my dad's 2nd cousin (from Indonesia), Elda, is going to be getting her international driver's license. It's only a little scary, consi
dering that, when I picked here up in the airport, she got in the wrong side of my car. :oD
For now, she's not going to have a car. But whose car will she drive? I'm still a little attached to my car, and I really don't want the stress of teaching her to drive. In Indonesia, the Honda CR-V (same size as my Element) is a large car, which means that Mom's Yukon XL (nearly 5 feet longer) is practically a land yacht, and not ideal for the task. Lastly, Dad recently got an Infiniti M35, and I can't imagine her being allowed to drive anywhere but the Salt Flats in Utah.
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Anyways, on a more pleasant note, Dad has seen the wa
y of the Almighty Apple. We've got plans to get him a MacBook Pro as a replacement for his testy Dell Latitude of 3 years. Besides the fact that we are now a poster-family for Apple, this also means that I won't have to deal with annoying software and hardware issues for which Windows tends to develop (don't even get me started about the garbage Broadcom Security Platform). This means a LOT less stress for Dad (and myself). Oh, and I'm also going to try to push the Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule!
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Today at 1pm, I'm getting my $30 haircut (which is totally worth it), and trying something new out. Don't know what that is, yet. Dad's been telling me that I shouldn't pay more than 12 bucks for a guy's haircut (but then again, Dad, my 30 bucks is a guarantee that I won't end up looking like a tennis ball, when it's all over and done with, thank you).
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Before the week is over, I'm planning on helping P.B. (who we'll call Peanut Buddy, to protect his identity) to move in furniture to his new apartment. The bargain is that, if I help him move, he'll buy me dinner, and let me rent the broom closet for 5 bucks a month (free WiFi makes it all worth it).
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Monday will be my day of rest. I've got a pseudo-outing kinda semi-planned (it's really much better planned out in my head), but I think I'll leave that for another day, another blog entry.
Night, guy pals and gal pals.
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