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I make house calls, tech to the rescue!

Jenny — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:13:45 +0000

When it’s family. My Aunt called me to come over. Seems that Comcast has screwed up their wireless system. That’s what she told me over the phone, but when I got there I found the culprit. It’s that damn Link-sys router that doesn’t work with certain types of Comcast modems. I had the same problem in Florida and here at Mom’s house, and now they are having the problem.

So I’m headed to best buy to pick up a Netgear wireless router that will fix all their problems. My Aunt Donna and Uncle Don have a full Apple network (that tickles me to death, I love it) so it’s nice to finally be a tech for apple products.

I’ll be heading to BestBuy tomorrow to pick up the Netgear wireless router along with some blank DVD’s since Mom and I are running low. I feels good to be needed finally. I’ve felt like a wart on a toads back for so long, I forgot I was actually valuable to people. Plus, I was paid in yummy homemade soup and this homemade cracker spread, vegetarian of course.

No, I will not come to your house if you live in or close to the Greeley area to fix your home networks, but family is family and I’ve been sitting in the basement of my Mother’s house not getting much more interaction than talking to my fur babies and playing World of Warcraft.

I might have more jobs on the horizon. My Uncle Don’s son needs some consulting on a web design for his production company and I’m supposed to talk to him when he comes home from Christmas. Apparently he’s dished out a lot of money for a web site and got screwed. I hear more and more stories about that. It’s a shame.

To add to the geekiness, my friend Brett and I might have a web design project dealing with his band. We’d work together in providing a working web site to promote the band and I can continue to add to my portfolio. That’s exciting and just what I’ve been waiting for.

It’s been a good day so far. I hope it is tomorrow because my job at my Aunt’s house isn’t done yet.

Opt-ing out of Kindle Favorites

Jenny — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:03:26 +0000

That’s had to be one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. Believe me, if I could have one again I would, I just can’t afford it right now.

Is it a boy or girl?

Jenny — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:46:38 +0000

Headed out to get a heart ulta-sound. I haven’t updated recently so for that I apologize but hopefully later today. In the meantime, here’s Jupiter, our newest part of the family all wrapped up in her 8 core goodness.

I’ve been waiting for years! Mac Pro 8-core!

Jenny — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:38:58 +0000

And I finally got one. Having the student ACD membership program (which expires in two days ironically) we got our federal ax returns back and I texted Brendan if I could go ahead and get it spec’ed and ordered I’ll upgrade the RAM via www.ramjet.com since it’s so much cheaper. I also got the 3 year warranty with it. With the AC D and my student discount the ADW discount I saved nearly $900 bucks when purchasing. That’s huge Should be here this week or next.

Also ordered Fable II wihle I ws at it. Whoops (sorry baby, it really looked THAT good).

Bren was so nice about it. He said, spec it how you want love, you’ve been waiting for years for this. My Mother eventually said the same thing. It should b When I get it I’ll extract the data from my harddriives and install each 500GB drive in slot2 and slot3. from to expand storage and make myself a scratch space for my photos and video’s

From the reviews the biggest noticeable difference is if you are a multi-tasker and have a ton of programs opened at the same time running at any one given time. There aren’t many “wow’s”, “ooowwwww”, and “aaaahhhhhhsss” about working a single program to determine the computers strength.
Hip Hip, hurray!!!!!

This was originally an email to my sissy, Camille, but I thought it would be a nice catch post since I haven’t been on the computer much and share my excitement with you.

Be expecting unboxing photos shortly, whenever it gets here. I just choose ground because they are usually good at getting stuff out to you in a couple days.

Now I need suggestions for a name …..thoughts? Anyone?

New Year Beginnings

Jenny — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:23:51 +0000

I gave all my employee’s a day off tomorrow to sober up. I’m the only one out of the bunch that can’t drink due to medication so I thought, hey? Why don’t I take the day tomorrow and let them off the hook since they have done such a great job over the holiday break. I know, such a nice boss, you should work for me. How are your computer skillz? If they are up to par I’m interested in expanding my team. Just email me at yolospat @ gmail dot com.

Anyway, in an effort to replace what was once taken from me and sold for a vice without my permission, today was one of those days. My husband got me a new acoustic guitar.She’s a Dean and she’s HAWT!!!

Not only is she beautiful, but she sounds so much better than my old alverez. Now I need to start Guitar Lessons somewhere. I’ve always wanted to play and I’m so excited to start.

Due to my doctors appointment yesterday some things are worse. My blood is 3 times thicker as before which is causing me more pain. I’ve been put on Heparin twice a day and due to the contract I signed I have to wear a medical necklace stating anti-coagalant.

At least it’s out of the way but I’m sure getting sick of all the pills and shots. I have so much more but I have to go to bed, because I promised my husband that I would go to bed at the same time every night and it’s already past my time. Anyway, more tomorrow.

My new (second) Kindle

Jenny — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:36:16 +0000

The other day when I was at CVS waiting to pick up my prescriptions I was sitting in the pharmacy waiting room tucked way in the back beside the pharmacy counter, reading the Twillight series on my Kindle which goes every where with me these days. I thought I heard my name called, so I put my kindle in sleep mode, stood up, peered around the corner only to find out there was another “Jenny” they were talking to. So I sat back down and punched in the two keys that bring the kindle out of sleep mode and the screen freaks out on me. It looked like a broken LCD with thick black lines running horizontally except for 3/4′s inch on top where the screen savor was. The kindle screen isn’t an LCD screen. It’s electronic paper.

So I called the Customer Service number I got from my kindle owners manual. The phone rang about 5 times and to my surprise, a live human being (I think) answered. I told him my problem, he ran me through a few steps like holding down the reset button in the back for 10 seconds. Nothing helped, my screen was still foo-bared.

And just like that, he told me he was overnighting me a new Kindle. Wow! That’s not where the surprises ended, however. When I got home from work I eagerly tore open the amazon box waiting for me on the kitchen counter, shaking with kindle withdrawals. I got it out, plugged it in, went on the amazon site to register my new kindle which took 5 seconds, and HURRAY! It was registered. Since I’m reading the Twillight Series by Stephenie Meyer, they were the first books I downloaded from my book repository on Amazon servers.

Then panic hit. I didn’t want to go through page by page to find where I left off. If you have seen these books, you would know they are quite thick. So I opened the first book fully prepared to go page by page hundred’s of times. With my jaw on the floor, the book opened right to the page I left off. I didn’t realize that the kindle sync’d my bookmarks too! Way too cool.

I love my Kindle.

Whoo hoooooooo

Jenny — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:32:21 +0000

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Apple Developer Connection

Jenny — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:50:36 +0000

I can’t get over how incredibly easy Apple makes it to learn their framework and to dive right into Cocoa programming. I’m a member of Apple Developer Connection because my passion is creating, coding and developing. When I first dove into Cocoa and Objective-C programming and signed up for the ADC program Apple pretty much got out a silver tray and handed me every tool I would need to create neat, fast and stream-lined OS X and iPhone applications.

The Library’s Apple offers are huge and they are actually built into XCode (the apple developer tool). I’m a visual person so I’m much more prone to video than I am having to read gobs of technical jargon. Apple takes care of people like me and with my learning style. They offer both introductory video’s, advanced video’s and everything in between. Not only can you find these video’s on the Apple Developer web sites but you can also find the video’s on Apple’s iTunes and download them to your iPhone/iPod/Touch to take with you.

Like I said, I thrive on this stuff …

Today was made of WIN!

Jenny — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:19:37 +0000

Well, it was sort of made of win. Pepper went to the vets to get his cast off today. After taking xrays his vet decided that his little bone isn’t quite healed good enough and they put another cast back on him for the next 2 or 4 weeks. Poor little guy, I’m sure he’s forgotten he even has 4 legs.

Other than that, it was a great day at work. I’m getting a lot done, and I have some huge projects on my plate for the week which feels great. I also got a raise, and I happen to be one of the two in my department that aren’t … :: cough :: … leaving the company not by their choice soon (if you know what I mean).

So what does that mean? That means I get more money, and they think I’m a smart valuable cookie. That makes me feel good

Got Brendan a new phone today too since he put his through the wash. It’s an LG Shine (black). It’s amazing how phones really haven’t come super far, of course when they aren’t iPhones.

Finals going on today and tomorrow. I haven’t been playing WoW because of this, and because I have to pull off at least a B in these classes. I miss WoW

Family in Georgia

Jenny — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:33:41 +0000

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