Call me kooky

Well, I survived the first day.  I think the “bad” parts are due to my normal idiotic self destruction worrying about the job before I’m actually there.  Should get easier as time goes along.

Call me tired,
Phosphers

Since I was bored and didn’t feel like doing all the other productive shit I need to do I fired up the N64 emulator and loaded up a game I haven’t tried before.  The aforementioned Castlevania game.  Most of the series has at least been playable but this one flopped right at the start for me.  First the movements of the characters is real bad.  I knew kids in HS that would just laugh at the posing.  Then the camera and controls suck.  It might be a real good game, but I don’t have the patience to fuck around with shitty controls long enough for it to get good.  Wikipedia link if you’re interested (don’t know why you would be): Castlevania: Legacy of darkness.

Call me annoyed,
Phosphers

I keep track of my gas reciepts.  Why?  To see how the price per gallon affects my budget?  To analyze how driving habits change mpg?  No, none of these.  I like the pretty graphs I can make with open office.  Though it is interesting to see how adding a quart of oil, or driving for longer periods on the freeway can affect millagage.

Call me kooky,
Phosphers

Welp, after a reasonably short run of unemployment I’ve got a job again.  It’s funny though, I saw the job listed but didn’t think of applying, then they called me.  I start work this Monday at nintendo’s call center doing support for you grubby masses.  It should be interesting to see how training goes.

The best part….. discount at the company store.

Call me employed,
Phosphers.

Since seagate was nice enough to send me that juicy 250gb drive I decided I’d dump the “extra” 40g drive into the server, thus giving me a place to dump tv shows that didn’t really fit with anything else.  Physicaly getting the drive in there was fine but I started to have problems right away.  That’s when I remembered the 32gb limit of the server’s IDE controller.
The drive has some funky jumper settings to limit things to 32gb, so I enabled that.  Linux still saw it as 40gb, all good.  Or so I thought.  I kept getting all sorts of drive not ready errors and filesystem corruption.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrgh.  Time to update the bios but I don’t have a floppy drive I would trust, and the server won’t boot off USB even if I had a USB floppy drive.  So I ended up burning a CD with a slightly over 1mb image with the needed boot stuff and the bios update.  Yeah, 699mb down the tubes but it updated the bios and the drive works as it should.  Whoooo.

Call me kooky,
Phosphers.