The Magic Door Mat

This morning i looked out my front door to see how the weather looked. Out of the corner of my eye, i noticed something amiss. My door mat had risen about 2 feet off the ground. Evidently, the door mat serves as a package cloaking device. If you put a package (no matter how large)under the mat, the package becomes invisible. It's the power of the magic door mat. I'm not sure why Fed Ex does this, but i think every package i've received from them has been placed under the door mat. Perhaps it's the whimsical personality of my delivery driver? Well, my studio monitors have arrived. Now i need the guitar interface and some nice monitor stands and the studio can become functional. Yes, that means the computer has been fixed.

Not 10 minutes ago, i finally fixed the studio machine. Well, it's not fully configured as i want it, but it is definitely closer. The one issues that i've been working on is getting internet access to the new machine. I was so frustrated. Turns out that Asus (the motherboard manufacturer) decided not to include drivers for the onboard ethernet port. Morons! And here i thought it was some XP software issues or perhaps a bad ethernet port. The latter would've driven me crazy...at least i could've scavanged from the old computer. Of course the only way to get the drivers is to download them (huh? how do you do that if you can't get your ethernet port to work!?!?!! UGGGHH Luckily i still have the laptop working) Anyway, i have progressed again. Tomorrow i will continue to configure the machine and install the studio software.

Mom and Dad visited today. We moved some clutter into the garage and mom did some cleaning. She likes to do that sort of thing...i most certainly did not get that trait from her. But thank you very much for helping me out. Now, i'm not so far behind on things i need to do. It helped out tremendously. It was a nice visit, even though i spent most of my time troubleshooting computer issues.

Well, the weekend sucked that i spent most of it troubleshooting computers, but it was a nice break. I'd like to have a few more days off, but i have much work to get done. Perhaps i should get under my door mat?