Look! A post! And it's been far less than a month!
So, Saturday late afternoon, four-ish I think, I was nearing the end of my VB homework. Yes, Visual Basic .NET 2003. Whee.
Anyway, they wanted, in the last couple of programming pieces, for me to create a user component thingy. Easy!
Well, okay, except that I had installed VB Express and it did not have a compilation template for components. Argh! After fiddling and fussing and Googling a bit, I decided I would have to install VB proper after all.
No sweat, I have licenses for it. Just not... disks. An advantage of working where I do; my MSDN subscription!
So... 40 minutes of download later (from MS's truly heinous website), I have what turns out to be a CD ISO. Dang, not a proper install at all... gotta burn a CD.
Oooh, there is no power to my CD player. My power supply blew out a few months ago, toasting my mobo with it (the pain! the pain!). So I stole, er, umm, borrowed, Marla's supply. Which was wimpy and short on cables, but just sufficient to drive my box... without the CD.
Okay, I could run VB on the Parallels VM on my Mac... or not! Heh. I don't mind SOME suffering, but that would be harsh.
So off to Fry's to buy a nice new power supply. The ones these days are quite nice, with modular cable configurations and stuff.
Into the box, burn the CD, install VB, and... by about 10pm that night... finish most of the assignment. And a coupla hours this Sunday morning too.
::sigh:: That burned a lot more time than I had hoped for.
I'm behind on re-submitting my bounced stories, and I'm behind on editing my written stories, and I'm getting _darned_ annoyed at not being able to write until I clear all this _other_ stuff out of my queue. School is a boulder in my road, but I'm down to 1 assignment each in two classes, and then finals... two weeks out. Then seven more classes to the end! Three of which I can take this year, it seems. Maybe. The scheduling at the online school changed late this year, for the worse.
On the home front, we didn't clean or wash much around the house, but we did cut a path in the front yard, and trenches around the front yard's garden beds, which will receive limestone blocks and gravel after this is all delivered on Tuesday by the Stone and Gravel Faeries. Over three tons of rock! Maybe 4 tons... it will be awesome.
If I think I'm sore NOW from all that digging, just wait 'till we move that stone around a few times.
Oh, and Marla made some really neat bread today, and cut the hell out of her finger.
Posted by Edwin at November 12, 2006 08:27 PM