Also, free stuff in southern California is of significantly higher quality than free stuff was in northern minnesota.

too bad that most of the people in this state just don’t measure up.

moving is kind of a hassle.

On the plus side, we are getting a free washer, I picked up a free dryer today, and someone is letting us use their mini fridge until we can find one of our own. They’re out there on craigslist, but I’m waiting until a good deal pops up.

Good times, good times.

The worst part about moving is getting your cable/internet moved over. Can someone explain to me why it takes TWO DAYS TOPS for someone from the utilities company to come over and hook up your electricity, water or gas, while it takes 10 days for someone to come over to hook up cable? What the deuce?

Stupid cable companies. As such, I’ll be driving back and forth each day until the 24th in order to work. That sorta sucks, but I’m not moved into the new place quite yet so it’ll have to do.

So I read up on the issue and saw that the best way to deal with it was to update my BIOS. My motherboard is an M2N-E, and the ASUS updater utility never worked worth $#)(*7. As such, I downloaded the files from their site (which also never worked worth $#*&) to my flash drive. I restarted my comp and ran the flash updater utility in the BIOS management system. Worked great until the most recent update that ASUS gave…wrong BIOS warning flashed AFTER IT HAD WIPED MY PREVIOUS BIOS, and then shut down the comp. It checked out fine in the prelim stage.

This meant that I had to take the damned computer apart, take out the CMOS battery and switch a jumper to reset the stored memory to default. Suggested time to let it sit: 5~10 seconds.

Bullshit.

I tried that. I tried 2 minutes. I tried 10 minutes. The computer would start up and hang. Nothing on the monitors, no booting from the cd rom, nothing. So in a bit of a rage, I took out the battery switched the jumper and did the only thing that was left to me. I went to sleep.

I got up this morning and plugged everything back in, and the comp worked fine.

this week = hassles and nothin’ but.

I managed, after screwing around all afternoon worried about this, to pull off some financial wizardry (which I’m sure will bite me in the ass) and made some money appear as if from no where from credit cards. So after the dust settled, and before supper, things were taken care of for paying for rent and deposit.

However, this whole shit storm coupled with the massive frustration of not getting paid as soon as I could have (the one time I needed it and would have been fine had things been done the way I had planned for) plus student loans taking about a week longer to get to me plus other non-related crap, it’s been a hell week for me.

Thank God it’s half over.

and Pacifica isn’t getting the loan payments out until next week at the earliest.

which means that I am flat fucking broke until then…which means that there’s a whole mess of fucking problems that arise with moving in.

When going for a phd, it’s best to drink pop which already has one.