yesterday was the end of my second week at work. until yesterday morning i had no admin access to anything, so i was left with very, very little to do. i understand that they want to make sure that i’m trustworthy and situated enough before i am granted such rights, but it makes for a very boring time for me. i did get to set up a linux box the first week. it seems that i might be the most linux savvy person there, so that’s cool. hopefully that will prove to be an asset in the future.
today i had to get a few things squared away for my car. my indiana plates expire today, so i had to go get my title transfered and get new plates this morning. i was going to get a new license too, but i didn’t have enough time. that’s not such a big deal, though, and i have plenty of time to do that later. i also called comcast about getting cable service hooked up. it looks like they have a deal going where i can get “enhanced cable”, cable internet, and voip all for $99 plus tax per month for one full year. if that pans out, i’m all over it. right now i only have the five tv channels i can pull out of the air, my cell phone, and a really jankity internet hookup. i’m borrowing my dad’s laptop with a wireless card and getting free wifi from some nice person who hasn’t locked down their wireless network. i then have the laptop plugged into my router and have internet connection sharing running. and then my workstation and metatron are plugged into the router. all-in-all, i think my internet connection is being nated three times (1: wifi router, 2: laptop’s ics, 3: my router). if that ain’t urban engineered, i don’t know what is.