Thursday, December 02, 2010

So Tuesday I go to the DMV to register the Prius so I can send the license plate back to my sister and her husband. I forgot it was the end of the month and that there would be a lot of last minute registering of vehicles. I should have guessed when the web ticket site was not working correctly. To make matter worse the renewal website had been down since the 24th. I waited several hours only to find out I needed to go to another location to have the car inspected first--and it was too late to get it done. I managed to get up early Wednesday and get in line via the website. I then go the car inspected and had a bite to eat before returning to the DNV at the appointed time. I waited about 20 minutes--it was a much better experience.

I missed the call for the resume workshop on Wednesday because I fell asleep. I was concerned what the instructor would think, so I sent an email apologizing. She was concerned that I was dropping out and seemed happy I was not. I am still not caught up, but I will trudge forward nonetheless.

I did manage to go to D&D Encounters, but it wasn't as much fun. I blame two things, a. I was sitting at the far end of the table and couldn't hear very well and 2. The young people at the other end were joking around and carrying on--I felt old and out of touch. The other old people were distracted with Talking Santa and Talking Tom on their Android phones. Of course, I played along a little with the Galaxy Tab that I need to take back in the next week. I did not follow the story and definitely did not follow all the jokes at the other end of the table. I went grocery shopping afterwards instead of going to my friend's house to play board games.

Today, I went and volunteered. While I still feel that I am not doing things fast enough, I felt like I accomplished quite a bit. The main thing was figuring out why one computer was not trusted by the network. Turned out it had the same name as another computer--if I were the network I would not trust someone with the exact same name as someone else. To make matters worse, no one knew a local ID for the machine. Luckily I figured it out by looking at one of the other Windows 7 machines set up about the same time--I also made an excellent educated guess as to the password. I was able to log into the local machine, remove it from the domain, change the name and re-add it to the domain. The young lady was very happy.

I needed to work on some stuff for the resume class and some stuff to close down the corporation, but didn't--I really need to get motivated on that tomorrow. I am hoping to get to bed early and then get up rested and rarin' to go tomorrow. I let you know how that goes.

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