Currently am trouble shooting the Zen, which is one of the Presario F500 series and apparently EVERYONE's been having trouble with it's wireless card (great, huh) lately. Zen's serial number is covered under the extended warranty and I can't even see the WLAN under the network adapters under Device Manager. From what I've read so far, the chances are that the card itself is fine, but the adapter's dead. ...which really sucks. I'm re-installing the driver to see if it does anything at all. If it doesn't I'm calling the company for the free repair.
32 hours without sleep yesterday and I think I drank more coffee-based beverage in that time than I usually do in a year. (I've developed a fondness for the dark-chocolate mocha-typed semi-frozen things.) That, combined with the fact that I kept my jacket off in the airport so that I'm always a little cold, helped a lot. Unfortunately it also meant that when my transfer flight announced that the plane got down-sized and so 30 people are going to need to get on the next flight out, at 10pm instead of 6pm, and then when my name didn't show up any of the lists showing the transferred, approved, and standby lists, I started shaking, thinking I can't deal with this right now. (At that point I was sleep deprived for around 29 hours and have max'ed out on the amount of caffeine I can take without getting sick.) Fortunately it got sorted out, eventually, and I got really lucky with the buses (which only came once every half an hour after 7pm, so I could technically wait up to close to an hour) and had to wait for less than 20 minutes total for both lines. I did notice, however, that despite of the jitters my hands were surprisingly steady throughout the entire debacle, which means that if I do end up having to do the two hour time points for my 24 hour study on circadian rhythm in my mouse mutant, I am reasonably certain I can still perform the dissection on the brain of a ten day old mouse without mangling anything. (And yes I thought of that as my "upside" while queuing yesterday.)
Also, what's up with the weather? I feel like I left in the beginning of autumn and came back in the middle of summer. Time does not that way flow. Unless I did, how did Lucy put it..."black out" at some point. For an entire year. And all my mailbox dates are wrong and my car and apartment miraculously are still exactly how I left them. Which is logistically improbable but then, time flowing backward is sort of impossible....
Hm...restalling the driver didn't seem to change anything. Call it is.
Ugh, no urge to cook of whatsoever. I wonder if I can just have fruits for dinner. Mmm strawberries.
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It's a motherboard problem. HP is sending me a box.
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Oh good god, I'm glad you didn't get delayed further D: D: D: I was pleasantly surprised by how early I got your voicemail, actually (I think you said you'd only get home at 10pm).
And it's ok, you didn't black out because I told you about the crazy hot weather via the phone, remember? Unless you forgot most of what we talked about on account of sleep deprivation :P
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