My accomplishment of the day

Ok so I am hardware obsessed. I have a thing for taking apart expensive electronic things and putting them back together. I have taken apart both my laptops twice, to add RAM and to clean the fan, etc. I've built my own desktop, and I've been upgrading it ever since, adding and replacing fans, and as of today, added a new optical drive.

Anyways, before I get into that lets go over my day. I had dim sum for lunch. It was really good because I love canto food, although the food was so slow and I was so hungry waiting for it. When I got home in the afternoon, I practiced a bit with part of my band, Mich and Jimmy, and played some guitar hero because Jimmy never played it before.

Since my old desktop died on me, it became more of a spare parts inventory than a computer, so I took it apart and decided that I could use the cd-rom drive and the floppy drive in my current desktop. I carefully, well, not really, plugged everything in. Guess what? Nothing worked.

Ok to make a long story short, I tried everything I could and failed and I was so confuzzled. (Jess uses that word too). My dad walks in and I'm like DAD IT DOESNT WORKKKKK!!! and he was like oh... and he took the optical drive out and moved a jumper on the back to set it to slave to match the master drive I already had. AND IT WORKED! AMAZING! So I now have newfound respect for my dad's technology ability. I guess those old school skills are still useful sometimes.

So my accomplishment of the day is I learned how to use jumpers! Yay for me. Ok you probably don't care, but if you've bothered to read this far down this blog post, you either really care about me and/or you're a geek. EDIT: because as jess pointed out, you can really care about AND be a geek too. :)

Time to go. Later.