I have completed my task of spending under an hour getting the family's wireless Internet all working.

Stupid five-hundred-mile drives.

ExpandDeer, "good-sized towns", and Jenny's family )

Epilogue: I left an apartment that had a broken garbage disposal and no clothes washer or dryer. I came home to an apartment with a brand-new garbage disposal and a state-of-the-art GE washer and dryer. So, you know, aces on that. Even if I also came home to a bathroom towel bar that flew off the wall the moment I touched it.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I must (finally) stop typing, and do some laundry.

(Also, yes, yes, I know. tl;dr. Here's a suggestion: don't be a rude asshole. I don't give a shit if you're too important to deign to let your eyes wander across my posted words; announcing that you are won't make me post any less. Besides, why do you think there's an LJ-cut there?)
So long, blagowub. I'm off to West Virginia to do on-site tech support for my family.

You heard me.
Expandmore tech support with brother )

The current music is because I developed an addiction to K-Rose back when I played GTA:SA 26 hours a day. I hang my head in shame.
So once we spend about an hour getting maurice's PPP settings to play nice with AT&T's servers, the talk turns to slightly less important matters.

Scene: brother has no idea how to start an AIM conversation. AIM works fine, he can send messages just fine once someone else starts the conversation, but he can't figure out how to send the first message.

Me: "You just double-click my name [on buddy list window], and a new window will open up. Then just type a message and hit enter."
Him: (very excited) "THAT'S what I wasn't doing! I wasn't typing a message!"

......

Is it me?
Months ago I had my brother download Firefox onto the family machine (maurice), and family used it for a bit, but then decided that they liked IE better and so switched back.

Now, surprise surprise! -- they're a bit sick of getting 4,512,732,948 popups for every page they MEANT to load, and suddenly Firefox looks like a good idea to them. maurice is also no doubt riddled with spyware; they definitely have at least one hijacker on there, plus it might be spyware that's to blame for the fact that IE didn't seem to want to take clicks from AIM. So I got brother to download teh browsar of güd, and hopefully I can get them to use it exclusively, and also get brother to download and run Spybot or something.

Of course, maybe I should just have them install VNC and then I can just haxx0r maurice and do everything from here instead of having to deal with stuff like
The Jennybork: Type into its address bar this address:
The Jennybork: http://getfirefox.com
The Jennybork: Don't click.
The Jennybork: Just type it manually.
[...]
Brother: why shouldnt i click
The Jennybork: I'm thinking your browser and your IM client aren't playing nice with each other.
Brother: how do i get to that website then
The Jennybork: Type it into the address bar!
Brother: you still there
The Jennybork: Yeah.
Brother: how do i get to the third link then
The Jennybork: Type. It. Into. The address bar.
The Jennybork: Of your browser.
The Jennybork: Like I keep saying.
Brother: i know
Brother: how am i supposed to access the link if i cant click



Further note to self: nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrd

Also! -- I have been working on skinning Sims 1 trollops. For instance:

BOOBIES


That is all.

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