Weekend roundup:

Friday-
Drove around Atlanta a ton, in the course of finding the place i was looking for. Big city businesses have such cool signs. I miss Atlanta - it's changed a lot since I've been there for any significant time.

Went to Dad's garage. Saw Ask Dr. Frapples. Twas no UCB, but I'll definitely be going back.

There was one-A.M. chinese food.

and later some Family Guy.

It was most excellent.

Then there was a lot of not sleeping due to extreme heat, and reflection due to birds chirping and so on.

It was nice, but it made saturday a hell of an ordeal. On account of the no sleepings.

Saturday -

Installed a CDRW in my mom's home computer, troubleshot my dad's DVD woes, secured my mom's new wireless network. Despite express instructions on what to get, she got ripped off on a Belkin router, but whatever. It does the job, and it's got most of the stuff she needs. Though I'd have liked support for DYNDNS, so that we can unfuckulate her network remotely whenever she inevitably gorps it up.

Set her up so she's not broadcasting her SSID to the neighborhood, and generally made her home network wardriver-proof.

Fell asleep on the couch downstairs after setting up the hard-line network down there - now i have DSL-jack-in when I go there to visit. Bonus.

Talked to my dad about school and job stuff, and found my mom had jumped the gun and potentially screwed me over again. She does this thing where she assumes my dad is going to be all belligerent and stubborn about something he mentioned in passing, and so she escalates it to full-out war, and that leaves him with little option but to actually participate in the war, because she just won't accept anything but escalation.

So, something said in passing that wouldn't have been an issue is now an enormous fight, and takes center stage, when it could've just gone away. It's especially bad because she wanted it to go away, and her counterproductive escalation usually screws her out of what she's going for. Which in this case is me being free to take my time getting on out of this place. So now it's my problem, and I had to have this discussion with my dad. Bleh.

Thankfully shortly after that (and having a conversation with my mom where she was COMPLETELY unaware that she had orchestrated the very problem she sought to avoid) I got to go to Smyrna and bring Carrie back to Athens.

After that, and getting no response from Kevin, I pretty much passed out til Sunday afternoon.

Sunday -

Got up, dottered around the house - felt kind of sick and odd from the weird sleeping and 1am chinese. Set up the dual-gun system on the Game Grid, though it doesn't work on House of the Dead 2 yet, virtua cop 2 is both guns full-a-blazin. Awww yeah.

Did a lot of internal network maintenence, updated my ExternaBrain, changed some passwords, including all the ones for Knet. Discovered the magic of netstat -ta.

Slept waaaaaayyy too late today.

And that pretty much brings us up to speed.

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