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February 13, 2007
A Balanced Day
"Excuse me" can be polite yet it can also be rude in many ways. It amazes me how the english language can have so many flaws depending on translation.
A woman older woman, perhaps homeless, walks across the street and to get passed me, says "excuse me". I realized that I was standing in the slope that would allow her to easily roll the cart up to the sidewalk without having to pull it over the curb. The question is, I'm not sure how she meant it.
On another note, I'm in line waiting to pay for my pizza, and the girl in front of me is on her cell phone while paying for her food. She is having a conversation, not paying attention to anyone else, and while distracted by the call, she is tring to put her stuff away. This was obviously rude so I said something. She didn't acknowledge anything because her conversation was far more important than listening or paying for her purchase.
So I got home from work tonight to find two packages at the door. The first was my knee pads which were estimated to arrive on Thursday. I was worried they wouldnt be here in time for the Friday night pup demo and was very happy to see them here.
The other was the Asus WL-167g WiFi adapter for my mac mini. For those of you who dont know the story, when I bought the mini, you had an option for bluetooth and an option for WiFi and each was a separate option. I was living at my old apartment on Market and the cable modem was in my bedroom so I figured who needs the WiFi.
Needless to say, we moved, we have an extra long eithernet cord going from upstairs to downstairs where my computer is and when I consulted Apple about having WiFi put in, I was told that since they no longer have a separate option for WiFi, I would have to buy the Bluetooth with the WiFi at the full price. Thats just outrageous.
So Ive searched for dongles before to take care of this and havent found anything that would work until last week Josh mentioned he was using a USB dongle for his mac (he's had trouble for a long time with his airport). I got the model number and ordered it over the weekend. I just got the email this morning that it was shipped. WOW! Talk about fast service and it was by far the lowest price I found online (including free shipping).
So this made my evening. Now if I can only figure out how to get the wireless to work with the dongle. I had to download the installer from Asus website and that installed fine. I just think its the settings on my mini that need to be changed. Ill eventually figure it out and life will be great.
YAY for me!
Posted by Des at February 13, 2007 07:55 PM
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