Cisco's Tough

Hello everybody. I'm getting ticked at Adobe. I just downloaded and installed updates, and i restarted because it prompted me to, and it decides that it needs to install some more things. Then it decides to interrupt my typing. Oh well. I took my first Cisco test yesterday. When the teacher said that they were notoriously hard, he wasn't kidding. I reread the chapter the night before, did the review, took the chapter quiz, and i still got a D+. Freaking adobe. It decided it couldn't complete the install because firefox was running. screw them. It's really the wording of the questions. Then they are multiple answer questions. That didn't make things easier. Oh well. the teacher offers test retake days every couple of weeks. I understand the material, the questions are just worded odd. I'm trying to think of an example. Nope got nothing. The questions aren't anything like the quiz you take online, or the review questions. They're just odd. Anyways, enough about that.

The plus side is that I revived Vista. It's breathing is normal. The thing i dislike about reinstalling Vista is that it doesn't format the partition, it just detects that there's another version of Windows, and creates a folder called "oldwindows" and puts it in C drive. Basically it puts everything, including old windows files, in that folder. So I have 40 Gbs of extra stuff just lying in a folder. The nice part is that I can copy and paste like documents and music from there.

So my friend is looking at building a computer. He asks me for help. So I'm browsing around newegg, and was looking at processors. Well I have an AMD 64 X2 6000+. It's an awesome processor. I paid 513 bucks for it. Wasn't cheap. That was in June. I look at it now, and it's 170 bucks. I was kinda ticked. I couldn't believe it. Then there was one slightly better for 250 bucks. I was thinking about buying it and giving my friend my old processor, but then i noticed the new one doesnt have a cooling device. Processor run hot and I want a cooling device with my processor. Plus I'm not made of money. So I didn't. I found some good stuff for him for a pretty good price. 650 bucks is about what his computer will cost. We bought some parts today because they were on sale and had some rebates. Al together we saved 45 bucks, but those include mail in rebates and those take forever. Anyways I'm going to do some web design work. Later.

Risk

I hate it when people do stupid things. Especially when it's my friends. Two of my best friends got in a car with one of my friend's coworker, and he decided to 70 mph around a bend on a dirt road. I'm no expert of dirt roads, but when my cousin dies in a similar fashion on a dirt road, i know it's not a good idea to be going that speed, especially around a bend. Yes they did get in an accident and they were VERY lucky. I have my suspicions that alcohol was involved, although i haven't asked my friends directly. I figured if they want to tell they will. Either way it was stupid. first off, if there was alcohol involved, they, my friends, should not have gotten in the car. If alcohol was not involved, then my friends should have been intelligent enough to tell the guy to slow down. There's a thin line between stupid and fun, and they crossed it. The driver messed up his spine pretty bad and is lucky that he is not paralyzed, and is still in the hospitol with two rods up his spine and bolts and screws coming out of his body. He's able to walk. My friend in the front has an extra vertibrae in his spine, and damaged a disk in his spine or something like that. He never had to stay in the hospitol but got some pain pills and said to take it really easy for two months. Now he was going to Korea for Tai Kwon Do (i think that's right) in Nov, but not anymore. I don't feel sorry for him a bit. Yes he's my friend, but I don't want to be grieving over someone else who got killed in a car accident. My other friend in the back seat is even more lucky, because he walked away unhurt. Just minor whiplash that he felt for a day and went away.

Now you may wonder, why i think alcohol was involved. Because of stupidity my dear. First off, the driver, who i said had a really messed up back after the accident, walked away and laid (lied?) down at home until the next day when he couldn't move at all. His spine was twisted in ways a spine is not supposed to be twisted. You're not suppose to move a body from a car accident that has a messed up spine. You're suppose to call the police and ambulance. They didn't, and i can imagine that the pain was great, but they didn't want to get caught with a dui and a minor. Actually there's not two. Just that one great argument.

I hope alcohol wasn't involved. My friends are not the type to drink. I'm not the type to drink especially after my cousin's death. But people act differently with other people.

Morally of the story. Don't be stupid. Don't drink and drive. Don't drive fast on dirt roads.

Sincerely,

RoyJ