It's all good so far

Early escape on Friday afternoon, but still one of the last out of the office. It has been a good week. I have learned how agile a smaller company can be. I asked if a system was in place. It evidently was not. I was told to make it so.

I walked down to the IT Director. It did not take long to make the case for this type of database. It took even less time for him to agree and set the development in motion. This was a a pleasantly pleasing difference. There is a significant amount of freedom to look at the issues and put in the proper strategy.

In another discussion with the IT Director, I found out that not only does he appreciate and run apple, but one of the techs could provide me with all the settings I needed to run my MacBook within their system. Not only does the tech run a MacBook, he has it dual booting Windows 8.

Doors open and people willing to discuss & strategize. This is going to be a lot of fun.

Holding a table waiting on others to arrive. Some have bailed, claiming Duty to Queen and Country, others, stout hearted fellows will be here though. There are beers to drink (other that the Samuel Adams Grumpy Monk), and tales to tell. Wives that understand, or claim to understand and will extract payment later. Time to put the tablet away and leave nothing but rumors.

The battle continues with the new laptop and the wireless network.  I don’t know why it is challenging me this way.  It is probably a setting someplace.  It will work for a while then something locks up.  

I was looking at the modem settings for the home network and accidentally reset it then fought for an hour before I realized how to change the network key.  I have met the (one of) the enemy, and he is us.  

I will be more patient with my father’s computer issues,

I will be more patient with my father’s computer issues,

I will be more patient with my father’s computer issues.

It has been slightly more challenging today.  I continue to fight the browsers.  I am not sure if they are not remembering the DNS settings, or just have crap in the cache that needs to be cleared.  I finally cleared the history and seem to be getting through.  I will plan on spending some quality genius time to get this issue figured out.  It has me frustrated. 

The machine works well except for the web stuff it needs to do.  It is likely operator error.  We will see if the genius says “I haven’t ever seen that happen before”.  Here is to being the explorer.

There was a minor hiccup with the installation of programs on the new laptop last night.  I was trying to install Office 365 and suffered from an operator error.  You extract the credit card from the cardboard cover and look for the 25 digit code.  The code is under a magnetic strip.  Not a piece of tape that says please remove, no.  A strip that, according to the nice fellow at Best Buy at 9:30 pm, is easily exposed by scrapping with a knife.  It was probably line one of the job instructions.  

Anyway, Office 365 gets me Office on the laptop and on 4 other computers – my desk top, the daughter’s chromebook if there is room, Jesse’s desktop, etc.  so we will not have to worry about updates and student discounts.

Now we have Outlook and the other Office functions working and stuff moved over from Drop Box.  We are in business.  I do need to learn how the windows and tabs work on the laptop.  I published the first two sentences of this entry accidentally by hitting some combination of the trackpad/mouse device.

I don’t mind. It is a peaceful Sunday morning.  I have good coffee available and can deal with the learning curve.