The Crap Shooter

[Kira]

And green!? wow you really did a number on that foot! lol I kinda like to see it.

Yeah, we're cool now. It was just a misunderstanding on both points *cough*... I just agreed and caved, cuz I'm just so tried of fighting with her.

[oldwrench]

Many times, it's just better to avoid the trouble, even if it's at your own expense, Kira. Of ten if you dismiss someone's lie or indiscretion, the only one it hurts is themselves.

As for Dinky, I'm not surprised, she's a walking accident, looking for a place to happen. Take care of that foot Dinky, you don't look good calico.

[Dinky]

....headache.....
But my foot's getting better!

[Devynne]

What happened?!

[Kira]

Aww, that's going around, My head Samantha use to get really bad migraine, but it had been two years since she had one, and last night she got a real gnarly one, and today it was just a minor headache. I'm actually pretty good at massaging ones temples. lol, she has a b/f and a kid, but she's cool with me like that... Shh... but he doesn't know, lol.

[Zeratul2k]

So I went back home for the weekend to find out the wireless router had been toasted by an electricity overload. I had an important audio-conference the next day (today) so I had to run to buy another one. I get home, plug it into the wall and into the laptop (wired) to start configuring and audio-conferencing at the same time. So when I'm done with that I start looking at the wireless, setting up authentication and stuff. When I'm done, I unplug the laptop and try to connect to the new wireless network from Ubuntu. Nothing. I looked at the logs and it looked kind of like I problem I was having in the university's network so I thought "maybe it's Ubuntu, acting up on me again." I switched into windows and tried to connect to the wireless again. Nothing. "Now that is weird", I think while asking mom where her laptop is. I take her laptop, boot into windows and try to connect. Nothing. I try my sister's USB wireless adapter on dad's desktop. Nothing.

So only the wired connection is working right. Crap. This new router is broken. Just my luck... going to change it tomorrow, but I don't know if the store I bought it from will be open (it's a holiday tomorrow here).

[Hiki]

Aaaw, that sucks D:


Stupid MSN. Stupid YTC. D:<
MSN keeps telling me I have an invitation (which is impossible because I already accepted it, then told msn I didn't want to get messages for invitations and, just to be sure, that I wanted no one to be able to send me invitations. Then, since it still didn't work, I deleted the "space" or whatever it is and deleted the contact from the space... -_-... yet still I get the message that I have an invitation)
Next I saw I had a pm on YouTube and what do I see: A message from the YTC telling me they can't open the bloody file (they didn't even specify which file) ON THE DAY OF THE DEADLINE! I had already sent it well before the first deadline, but apparently they didn't get it then, so I had sent it again last monday. I think they could've let me known sooner, SO I COULD SEND IT AGAIN. But since it's already past the deadline, I'm not really going to bother to send the file again right now.
*curses and stomps off to get ready for school*

[Dinky]

Aw, poor z2k and Hiki!! Computer troubles suck!

[Kira]

Dude I was so scared my computer was dying on me, turns out I was just over heating it, lol.

[Zeratul2k]

Lol, reminds me of what happened at a friend's last company... What happened, I hear you ask? Well, here's the story, as best as I remember it...

My friend (let's call him Rafael) used to work on a small company a few years back. He was a junior programmer but since it was a really small company, he was ussually charged with giving tech support as well. Of course, this included going into the server room to fix things when his boss (supposedly the only one that could go in there) wasn't around. Now the server room was a really small room, looking more like a closet than anything else, but given the amount of equipment in there and how much they were worth (both monetarily and information-wise), the boss had a big A.C. system installed solely for keeping things cool in there. After a particularly long weekend (one word: carnivals) Rafael was called first thing in the morning by an alarmed sales manager. "The network isn't working!" was all he could make out of the alarmed whimpering on the other side of the line. "What do you meant it isn't working?" he asked. "I can't do anything network-related!" the manager answered. Now, as hard as it is to believe, this particular sales manager actually knew his way around a computer, so him saying that caused a little alarm to go off in Rafael's head. "I'll be there as soon as I can" he said and went to get ready.

When he got there, he found the place in total chaos. No computer had any kind of access to either the internal network or the Internet, and people where running all kind of small fixes to see if they could repair it themselves ("Hit F5!", "Click on repair connection!", "Jiggle the wire!"). Of course Rafael, knowing that a network problem this big could only be caused from the server room, headed straight there. Once he got the door open, he had to step back as a wave of heat literally punched him in the face. Cursing everything and everyone he mustered enough courage to jump inside. A quick assessment revealed that the A.C. had been purposely shut down and, after turning it back on, he went to see if the servers could be revived. After doing his best for hours to bring the most critical services back on line on the few servers that were still working, he started on the mail server. As soon as he got it working, a message that had remained on queue before the server went flatline, was sent to every internal mail account on the company. It read something like this:

"Hi everyone! I had to work until late last Thursday before the carnival holidays and while I was making the rounds before leaving I noticed a big A.C. unit had been left on! It seems some people don't really understand the fact that this is an eco-friendly company and every effort we make to save on electricity can be a big help. I turned it off, but let this be a lesson for everyone, ok?"

Guess _who_ learned a lesson?