Thoughts and Ramblings

Well, Tuesday was the day for the Engineering Career fair. One of my friends came into town for it because he was recruiting for Raytheon. He came down monday and we went out to dinner. It was nice to see him again.

On the way down, shortly after going over some rough train tracks, his corvette started having some issues where it was loosing power. It was a small hiccup, and it didn’t do it again afterwards. Then, when he was trying to leave on his way to Dallas on Wednesday, it did it again, but this time it didn’t go away. He had to be towed back to college station where they looked at it. As a result, he spent the night at my apartment since he didn’t have his hotel room anymore. Microsoft had a Halo (computer game) tournament Wednesday night. We went to that because it was free food. On the whole it was fun to go to. In addition, I got to meet up with Noah who was a Microsoft recruiter. I had not seen him since last August.

It has been a while since I wrote here, and with good reason.

Sunday night, my computer froze. I looked at it very oddly because this is a far cry from normal. I was about to reboot it when it suddenly unfroze. A few minutes later, it froze again, and this time I heard the too familiar sound of a hard drive on its last leg. It was the the typical hard drive slowly failing kind of failure where the drive mostly works, but freezes every once in a while. So, I took the computer down and started using the laptop, very happy that the data is backed up.

Well, the CE department decided that they were going to pay me now for my sysadmin work. So, that means that I will continue doing it. It is not too much work, but more than is worth doing for free.

Anyway, I am going to have the fun tonight of moving the user’s files over to the new hard drive space. Hopefully all will go well.

Well, the semester is coming to an end. I have basically finished everything that I need to do for the end of the semester. I have a Christmas party left still, but that is just about it.

The laptop that my dad let me use seems to still be working just fine. Nothing wrong with it so far. I wonder if it is going to give me the same failure that it gave him. Strange.