Life via Four Eyes

I’m all kinds of nervous and excited. I should have done this a long, long time ago.

To keep the background story short and sweet, earlier this year my [older and bossy] brother went and bought a “gaming” PC from a shop. It has a huge ass storage drive and a SSD which they are calling a “boot” drive.

Cute.

Except for one tiny and very important detail. No one change Window’s install registry, which my brother does not know how to do (shit, I wasn’t sure myself either initially).

If we’re going off of the theory that gamers and PC hobbiest can figured it out themselves, then sure. But if you are going to “custom” build a PC with these kinds of specs, I can’t figure out for the life of me why you wouldn’t change the setting.

Long story short, as time goes on, my brother installs new stuff. As people with computers do. And the space on the SSD fills up. This makes Windows go effin crazy cause it’s running on a drive with like 2% space left.

Well….I nipped that shit in the bud.

From the registry.

Local Machine > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version 

From here change the ProgramsFilesDir.

My system is 64 bit so I had to do it for the 64 bit programs and the x86 programs.

Meh. If you’re cool enough to be digging around in your registry, you’ll figure it out. If not…leave that to someone else.

Does not get much better!

living-in-technicolor asked: Salaam, pretty lady. Between the 2 of us, you are the bigger geek.

Salaam, love.

So says the lady who is excited to be working with DNS. Since my specialty is in no way “networking,” I have only the slightest of knowledge on what a DNS server even does.

Today, though, I do think I went into Geek overload.

I wanted to vent about how fail-tastic I felt. I had a general fail-tastic day at work, but those are becoming more common, I have YET to eat since lunch, burned my kid in the tub, found out I’m broke as shit, and overall. I just feel….fail-tastic.

Nothing says fantastic mothering like: 1) totally failing at giving your child antibiotics twice a day which is a fact I earlier neglected to mention, becoming frustrated with your child because he’s driving you crazy while you’re in the midst of trying to figure out how you’re going to keep insurance on your car so you can legally drive your kid places, then burning him with too hot bath water.

And now is that time.

I know it is not Amir’s fault that we are going through what we’re going through, and I KNOW it’s not the end of the world. 

Unfortunately, though, when a person feels like they’re holding so much, it only takes straw, or the slightest blow of the wind to break their backs.

I have two weeks or so until I have time off from work and school and I feel like I won’t even make it there.

Shit is ridiculous.

I have been struggling with attention deficit disorder since I was a wee-little-un. I have had to find ways to cope and bypass the way the traditional American education system attempts to squeeze the life and joy out of young pupils.

Through tools available for the young and gifted I was able to do pretty alright. I struggled again in college, but within my department I had a number of mentors who did all that they could to help.

As an adult I have found ways technology can help me do that. As it stands now, Microsoft’s OneNote helps me create a virtual notebook for my classes and helps me stay on top of it.

So far so good.