I Didn't Touch Anything, I Swear.

So, yesterday my Opa called me over to his house because his computer wasn't working. It was complaining that it couldn't find his hard drive to boot from. My hunch was that it had something to do with the damp CD he had put in immediately before the computer shut itself off. I will say in his defense that he did have an understandable reason to do so. When I got to look at it, the first thing I did was turn it on and see the error for myself. I even poked around in setup, and found it could see the CD drive, but not the hard drive. I thought that was weird, as it was probably the CD drive messing up. Either way I decided to see what would happen if I took the CD drive out. I pulled the computer out from under his desk, put it on the table, opened it up, and moved it to where I could attach a screen. Before going any further, I decided I wanted another look at the error message. Unfortunately, I couldn't, because the system booted perfectly. Nothing wrong at all. I have no idea why. Oh well.

In other news, I decided if I'm going to be home for the next 8 months, I might as well get the Linux installation on the family computer up-to-date and bootable without messing in the BIOS (I put grub on the wrong drive last time). I decided to go with Fedora 10, as I had a really strong urge to see Plymouth in action. I installed it Sunday afternoon, and I didn't get to see Plymouth until earlier today due to slow Internet and a ton of updates. I finally got the Nvidia drivers installed, and now it looks very nice, but keeps freezing and the package manager bothers me. I think tomorrow it will be getting Linux Mint, which is my current favorite distro. I was hoping the impressive look of Fedora10 would get my family interested in using Linux, but Mint is pretty polished itself.

I would also like to point out that as soon as I find a way around some annoying technical difficulties, one of the content ideas I've been thinking about will be unleashed. It may coincide with, be proceeded by or closely followed by an update to the look of the blog. Maybe. We'll see. Until next time.

I got talked into fixing someone else's computer while writing this. I'm on a roll!

Updates

Hello!
Well I'm just as bad as Mike in updating, in my defense it is his blog! Kidding of course. Anyway I'm back at school for a second semester and I did reasonably well in my courses last semester. (I got an 87 in physics, usually my worst subject!! Now biology is which makes me sad.) Tomorrow will be a busy day as I have 8 hours of class, stupid labs, but I'll survive, maybe.
Christmas was really fun and really short, I feel we need longer holidays.
When I returned to my residence after the break it was sweltering in here. They were afraid of the pipes bursting so they kept in tropical in here. I was in shorts and a tank top and barely got any sleep because of the heat, so I had a lovely first day back.
For Christmas my big present was a Tv to put in my room so I can play my wii on it. I must say it is pretty awesome. I am also able to not play video games and do work, I'm such a good girl.
As you know Mike's been wait listed for his program. The wait is absolutely killing me, I miss him and I'm dying for him to be living in the same city as I'm in. They had better accept him soon!
It's just the beginning of week 2 and I'm already behind in calculus, oops. Well the stuff is kinda tricky (Integration by parts) but I think I'm getting it now, I'm just to lazy/not motivated to do question 1-49 even if it is just the odds.
I, like an idiot, forgot my boots back home, well they are actually my moms boots, but don't worry I bought another pair and jumped in puddles just to show up the snow, HA take THAT mother nature.

Well, I'm hungry and it's dinner time so I'm off to the cafeteria!
Hopefully Mike and I will post soon about his acceptance!
~Amy

Happy New Year, Christmas, etc.

Alright, once again I have fallen behind on the updates to this blog. And really, the Christmas theme should have come down almost a week ago, but there's not much I can do about that now, other than just take it down.
In my last post, if you'll recall, I was talking about an application to college. Other than my high school transcripts spending 3 weeks in the mail, the application process went as well as can be expected from someone as disorganized as myself. I'm currently not at the college however, as I have been wait-listed. The good news though, is that I'm in the top 10 somewhere, and the course doesn't start until Monday. So I still have a chance of being there for day one, and if I'm not, then the people dropping out during the first week will surely get me a spot in the class.
So until the point when I get to go off to college, I'm stuck at home. Alone. My parents work, and my brother has school, and I'm sitting around doing very little. Well, I have done a lot of work on that website linked to from the sidebar, but I haven't actually uploaded it to the server, so nothing has really changed there. I'm still toying around with some ideas for something to put here on a regular basis, that doesn't rely on interesting post-worthy things happening to me on a regular basis. Let's just see where things go. Until next time.

I no longer like the "until next time" ending. again.