| 9:49p |
Good things come to those who wait.
or
Leave a problem long enough and it will work itself out in the end.
This philosophy is one that my ex-boss (Rat's current boss) has taken to heart. In his case, he was refering to a pile of files that he'd put behind his desk, and which after a few months had been completely filed away from people coming up to it and taking files when they needed them.
For me, the problem solved was with regards to printing. I recently bought a switch so that both Rat and I could use the printer without having to play around with cabling or complicated networking. I installed the printer on my machine and it worked like a dream.
But then I figured I should try and get the scanner working to (it's a printer/scanner/copier). I looked around the web until I found the Linux drivers. Installed them. And found they didn't work. I also discovered that when I tried to print I'd get lines of gobbledygook. And yes, that is a technical term.
I tried uninstalling the stuff I'd downloaded for the scanner. I even uninstalled and then installed the stuff for the printer. But still it wouldn't work.
I remembered that at the weekend I downloaded an update for the printer drivers (along with a bunch of other updates). I didn't think it would have fixed anything, considering reinstalling didn't, but I decided to run a test page. And voila! It printed. Haven't actually tested it on any other documents as yet. I'll try that later. Unfortunately the printer gets plugged in the same place as the transmitter for my headphones. And since I plan to go in the other room and do some studying I'll want to be able to hear music.
...
So the studying hasn't exactly gone to plan. I think it's a bad sign that, when trying to answer multiple choice questions, you can't work out how to calculate any of the possible options. Perhaps it's because I just haven't done any studying for ages. I think it's more because I don't understand how to do the questions. And once upon a time I used to be a superb mathematician. The silly thing is, I have the answers. But since it's an "assignment" I don't really want to cheat. But at the moment I'm having trouble getting passed a single question.
Somehow, I have to persuade my parents that they want to pay for me to visit them over Easter. Either that or my brother needs to have Maunday Thursday off so he can collect me then, and then drive me back here again on the Saturday. The train ticket would cost almost as much as the DVD player I'm meant to be buying them (as a joint birthday present), and that's without buying and DVDs to match. So if I have to pay to travel, they won't be getting their present. I really want to go home, just to listen to the choir sing on Good Friday (since I won't be singing because my darling brother never told me what music they were doing).
I'm grasping for interesting things to say, since I can't seem to study and I have a little time to burn before bed.
I wanna roleplay. Why can't my roleplaying game be starting this minute. My character is sooooo cool. I wanna get started NOW. |