patience (and desperation) pay

four days without the internet connection can be maddenning. i don't know why customers rarely believe when I tell them "i know how you feel".
anyways, right after american idol, i took a mug of coffee and took my place before the server, armed with the resolve to get the internet up tonight.
it wasn't as painful as i thought it would be, considering what i have been through in the last three or four days. what i lacked though is the keeness in observation in which LAN to share and not. i did it after some cryptic instructions from bro, which until now i wasn't able to decipher. i just went through the age old method of "trial and error". and voila! we are connected.

troubleshooting woes

i have been assisting customers get their internet connection up the whole day, yet back at the house, i have been struggling to get the wireless working. it started during the weekend. it was raining and diagnostics said it's an antenna issue and i needed to contact online helpdesk, which i didn't do (and didn't like to do). i didnt have much time then with dad at the hospital and mom being a bit under the weather. besides that, the monitor that was plugged to the server just flickered and sat there with a dark screen. at first i thought that it was a monitor issue until i tried plugging it to another PC and it worked. i tried connecting the three other monitors to the server and all behaved the same. bro said i needed to tighten the connection of the monitor to the video card on the PC. that's where i got lost and decided that the internet connection needed the break as much as i did.
so after getting the hardware rested for two days, i got the connection running now, but only on the server. i still have to figure out how to get the network up (it did run for a bit until i somehow deleted one LAN connection and plugged the cable on another port). Really tricky...

tail of the cold front

kilobytes boys...trapped in the illusion woven by the unusual cold that hit home on bro's birthday

twilight series

this by far has beaten my record in reading in succession four books of the same author non-stop; my first being dan brown's da vinci code, angels and demons, deception point and digital fortess. and who would have thought that meyer's "young love, sweet love" (discounting of course the fact that eddie is ancient despite his youthful appearance) would be it.

starting on the 7th of January, when i finally gotten hold of the books, i'm done with breaking dawn as of today. it meant not having much of a life though besides eating, going to work, doing the dishes, starting with the laundry (and find mom finishing it) and reading until i couldn't keep my eyes open anymore.

i'm not sure, but i suspect the stories' charm lies on the its distinct characterization of the vampires. it's almost everything opposite to what bramstoker, or ann rice has filled our minds with over the years: vampires turning more beautiful when hit by the sunrays instead of being burnt to ashes, vampires living in mansions rather than dark caves, vampires fraternizing with werewolves (that phase at will - unlike remus lupin) and humans...sigh...fantastic to the nth degree.

the movie helped. kudos to the casting director. i couldn't place any other faces that would best bring to life the three focal characters but pattinson, lautner and stewart as i read the books.