Total Failure To Install Home Network...
Apr. 8th, 2005 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarcasticwriterAh, Friday, April 8th. How distant you seem.
Which would be the point of this post, that you'd be reading now, actually.
Friday is nothing but a haze of frustration that stems directly from knowing just enough about computers to get me into trouble with setting up a home wireless network. Alex the Roommate has moved her office into the garage, and so that's where I spent most of the day, trying to get the wireless network to talk to both my Mac, and my PC, without having to plug either in.
Actually, for what it's worth, I spent a significant portion of Thursday night trying to set it up, too.
Anyway, I didn't do much else. The software for the first device I got just would not cooperate. I got it working, changed a setting, got it not working, then returned it to "start fresh." The next wireless system I brought home was even more impossible, and their software was dreadful, too.
When I get obsessed with getting a project done (like this), or like, say, organizing my jewelry box or collecting something, I can rarely let it go. I have to be pushed to the point of total physical exhaustion to get tired enough to sleep. Plus, "leaving it for tomorrow" stinks of defeat, even if it's temporary. And it's hard for me to sleeep feeling defeated.
But I did, and no Internet, no less. Be glad of it, that the frustration's worn off by now, when I'm updating like...four days later.
Which would be the point of this post, that you'd be reading now, actually.
Friday is nothing but a haze of frustration that stems directly from knowing just enough about computers to get me into trouble with setting up a home wireless network. Alex the Roommate has moved her office into the garage, and so that's where I spent most of the day, trying to get the wireless network to talk to both my Mac, and my PC, without having to plug either in.
Actually, for what it's worth, I spent a significant portion of Thursday night trying to set it up, too.
Anyway, I didn't do much else. The software for the first device I got just would not cooperate. I got it working, changed a setting, got it not working, then returned it to "start fresh." The next wireless system I brought home was even more impossible, and their software was dreadful, too.
When I get obsessed with getting a project done (like this), or like, say, organizing my jewelry box or collecting something, I can rarely let it go. I have to be pushed to the point of total physical exhaustion to get tired enough to sleep. Plus, "leaving it for tomorrow" stinks of defeat, even if it's temporary. And it's hard for me to sleeep feeling defeated.
But I did, and no Internet, no less. Be glad of it, that the frustration's worn off by now, when I'm updating like...four days later.
