Daily report
Feb. 27th, 2004 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularToday was ... a day.
Tested my skills at one of the temp agencies; not holding out a lot of hope for the New York agencies, considering they let me twist all winter and summer and fall. But today I found out that my skills with the computer haven't degraded too much, though I can't remember how to create a table of contents in MS-Word. My typing speed apparently went down to 67 wpm from 72, while my error rate increased. Must have caught a wave the last time I tested.
Turned into cook again, though of very simple things; can't go too far wrong preparing semi-condensed hunter's soup for disease-ridden kid brother. All the while, tapping away at Cortana; decided to give the new laptop a true battery test, and am so far fairly impressed. After two and a half hours of surfing and checking mail, plus a complete scan of the system from Norton Antivirus (automatically scheduled for Friday at 8pm for some peculiar reason), Cortana informs me she still has a quarter of her battery power left, good for anywhere from one to two hours. Am very impressed at this, though suspect that the real test would be playing a DVD and seeing how well the battery held up to that.
Am also feeling just a skeetch odd referring to laptop by name and bestowing female pronoun. (Though had good reason to give unique name to laptop; with up to five computers on the home network at any one time, unique identifiers can be good thing.)
For what it's worth.
Tested my skills at one of the temp agencies; not holding out a lot of hope for the New York agencies, considering they let me twist all winter and summer and fall. But today I found out that my skills with the computer haven't degraded too much, though I can't remember how to create a table of contents in MS-Word. My typing speed apparently went down to 67 wpm from 72, while my error rate increased. Must have caught a wave the last time I tested.
Turned into cook again, though of very simple things; can't go too far wrong preparing semi-condensed hunter's soup for disease-ridden kid brother. All the while, tapping away at Cortana; decided to give the new laptop a true battery test, and am so far fairly impressed. After two and a half hours of surfing and checking mail, plus a complete scan of the system from Norton Antivirus (automatically scheduled for Friday at 8pm for some peculiar reason), Cortana informs me she still has a quarter of her battery power left, good for anywhere from one to two hours. Am very impressed at this, though suspect that the real test would be playing a DVD and seeing how well the battery held up to that.
Am also feeling just a skeetch odd referring to laptop by name and bestowing female pronoun. (Though had good reason to give unique name to laptop; with up to five computers on the home network at any one time, unique identifiers can be good thing.)
For what it's worth.
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Date: 2004-02-27 07:06 pm (UTC)Until the climactic fight scene, at which point it will go dark and sneer at you.
I name all of my computers after starships (currently typing on Moya), so I know not from where this weirdness comes... ;)
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Date: 2004-02-27 07:13 pm (UTC)Now if I'd been a proper sysadmin for the home network, I would have chosen good names for the machines as soon as I began networking them together.
(What kinda names have you chosen? I can see Moya, and Talyn, and perhaps in the future Serenity ... what was it in the past, if I may ask?)
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Date: 2004-02-28 09:50 am (UTC)The Blackbird was my first laptop, then Moya (who was previously White Star 3), the Command Carrier (external hard drive; partitions are Carrier Bay 1 and 2, and the Docking Bay, except that the part that has the West Wing vid clips is, obviously, the White House) and the Prowler (new laptop).
At least I can't be accused of being inconsistently insane.... < g >