Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
Tuesday July 10, 2001
The following week. Hanmee cooked some pork for us today, and i’m just eating the last of it now. Pretty good. It’s 9pm now, and there’s nothing left to do but relax and kick the cats.
Notice:
No harm has come to any cats being kicked this evening. All cat kicking has been done under supervision of trained cat kicking technicians. All cats were wearing proper cat kicking apparel.
Having said that, i think i’ll torture everyone around me by playing my guitar.
Thursday, July 5, 2001
Another muggy day. Hmm. Didn’t i say that before? Must be true then.
The photos in allan’s family are all done now. Take a look if you so choose.
Monday, July 2, 2001
Another muggy day. That’s okay. We’ve had our air conditioners running most of today. However, one of them decided to sweat a little and dripped onto our couch. Caught it in time, and now it’s dripping elsewhere – like out the “out” tube. I put the drip hose into a plant that demands a lot of water. How is that for being an ecologist, eh? Ha ha! Yah, i know. I’m using electricity. But these air conditioners are supposed to be pretty efficient. I’d like to take them to Canada whenever we end up moving there, but they run off of 220 VAC rather than 110 VAC. Not sure if i could wire it up properly without singing my hair!
Something else in the news. Not necessarily today, but news of recent nonetheless. Hanmee & i went down to Kyobo book store, the largest bookstore in South Korea, to poke around and see what we could see. I had in mind to pick up some reference books on Windows 2000. Turns out, there are books from Microsoft that cover the entire core-four MCSE courses. They call it the MCSE Training Kit. It covers, in a four book & 2 CD package, Windows 2000 Professional, W2K Server, W2K Network Infrastructure Administration, and W2K Active Directory Services. These are the four core subjects of study needed to get the MCSE ticket – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Along with these core, 2 to 3 electives are also needed. So this gives me a solid base to start on this road to tech stuff. More later.
Sunday, July 1, 2001
Saturday, June 30, 2001
Hey, folks. It’s terribly rainy today, gray skies, windy, cold (according to Hanmee), and generally very dull. We’re planning on going to Kyobo book store soon. But first, we have to clean up our apartment, eat, etc. Lynn (Ingyoung) is planning on coming here this evening. Dunno though.
Thursday June 28, 2001
Good. It’s done. My USB webcam and the old camera are streaming independently. One is running with iVista, the other with Windows Media. Of course that means the whole computer is much slower, and the frame rates of both are much lower, but at least it’s working. Okay, so this really isn’t a big thing to anyone else, but it’s been something i’ve been working on fixing for a couple weeks now. Video codecs are always a dilemma. Sometimes a real head-scratcher.
The cats are still alive. They’re fat as ever. Hanmee’s father seems to think that, when we move back to Canada, taking the cats with us is stupid. Crazy. A waste of effort. “They’re just animals.” To each their own. As far as i’m concerned, he’s just a stranger, and my cats are my family. Nothing else matters.
Wednesday June 27, 2001
I forgot to say that, last week, i gave up all my birds. Hanmee got frustrated in all the financial mire we’re in from lack of income, so i broke the stagnant mood and ran out the door with the birds. I went to Dongdaemoon market and sold all nine birds (including the old one with the bum feet) and the cage for 10,000 won. So now we have no twit-twit on the balcony anymore.
I called my dad the last night. I can’t help thinking that the distance is great – too great to bridge. Not necessarily (or at any rate, not only) from the physical divide between us, but just a separation i can’t easily explain. He’s done it. He can’t find the words to communicate with me anymore. Just doesn’t want to. Maybe i’m boring, maybe he thinks i’ve turned too white-collar for him. Maybe he just don’t like me no more. Who knows – who cares.
The cicadas have started buzzing now, bringing in the summer. Kind of noisy, if you ask me! Ha ha!
Tuesday June 26, 2001
Yup. Everything is almost back to normal now. I’m learning some ins and outs of running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. There’s a lot to learn.
Saturday June 23, 2001
I am the King of Reformatting! Let it be known all over the world – Allan is the King! Long live the King!
Okay. So that’s a little over the top. But so is reformatting twice within as many days! Anyway, something screwed up stopping most of the computer’s services, so i reformatted. Then, i screwed up in the “domain” and “workgroup” thing making it impossible to get “Active Directory” services up and running. With Caleb’s (my bro-in-law) heroic help, i got part of it sorted out so as to get my LAN going. But the underlying problem still existed – the Active Directory shit. So to make a long, drawn out story a bit shorter, i fixed it. By reformatting. Again. I am the King! (Of reformatting, anyway.)
Friday June 22, 2001
I put all my plants outside a few days ago, when the rains started. Now they look healthy. Healthier than me! Time to bring them all in again. They’re doing me no good sitting out there, so i’ll bring ’em in today.