“There’s a time and place for everything, and it’s called college.” -Cook, South Park.
That’s the motto that I have been trying to follow. The last thing that I want to do is leave college and think of all the things I haven’t done. Of course above all, I have been following the three rules.
We didn’t have school on last Thursday due to Veteran’s day. Friday was a pretty easy day so this feels like the middle of a four day weekend.
Lately the sound on my computer has been acting up. Sometimes it will randomly cut out for a few seconds and then jump back in. Then Windows wouldn’t let me install the latest patch for Doom 3. I decided it was time for a reinstall. Reinstalling Windows is relatively painless when you have multiple hard drives. I just copied the My Documents folder along with some save game files and my email settings to one of my other hard drives and proceeded to install Windows again. It’s always a pain to install all the drivers and programs again, but I managed to do it in just a couple of hours. However now I was not getting any sound at all. My computer was getting kind of dusty so I took out my Audigy 2 sound card and cleaned it off hoping that would fix it. It didn’t. I put the sound card in my other computer and installed Windows 2000 along with the sound card drivers. Of course it worked perfectly fine. To make a long and hard story short, it turned out that when I installed the drivers on my Windows machine, I accidentally checked the box making the digital sound output default. I don’t have digital speakers, so it didn’t work. I reinstalled the drivers and now my computer is healthy again. So I wasted virtually all of today playing around with my computers. Oh well.
On another note, apparently there is a correlation between a state’s average IQ and whether or not the state voted for Bush or Kerry. Or maybe not. Who knows?