My Love of PEI

I left a message on Nick's blog, after geezer squeezer joked about the Island being crap.. well... I can't call myself an Islander if I don't respond, right?? *LOL*
Anyway, what I love the most about PEI is, well, I know it's strange, but it's Charlottetown.. It's a city, but it's a small city... and it's not often that you walk down the street on a nice day and don't see someone you know... most things are in walking distance of everywhere.. and it takes me about an hour and a half to walk from one end of the city to the other.. it's great...
My brother has taken some neat photos of different places in Charlottetown... he likes going through back alleyways in the older parts of the city and seeing some of the stuff that was put in to aid people years ago... like the pulleys on the sides of buildings... some buildings still have these... they were used to get heavier objects to the second and third stories of these buildings... he also took some pictures of the Basillica before they scraped all the black crap off of it.. little pieces of history being washed away... there's a lot of history in our downtown.. and it's neat seeing how the old blends with the new...
I've said it before, but although I may not have been born here, but I plan on living out the rest of my days here.. and although I've only been here about 15 years, I find that this Island feels much more like home than where I live before ever did...

The New Computer Saga Update, and other things

I was playing around with the computers last night after I got home from work.. and I've almost got it working the way I want... even if I don't have the dvd-rom to play my sims game... I played with it enough that I can see both computers on my computer (Win2000), but I can't see either on my bro's computer (WinXP)... when I try to access the workgroup with his computer, it tells me that it doesn't have permission to access it.. so I'm thinking that because my computer is the main, I need to somehow give his computer permissions.. I'll spend an hour or so tonight (maybe more cuz I don't work tomorrow.. *L*) on figuring out how to give permissions... then my network will finally be working!!!! I probably won't have my dvd-rom till next thursday, though.. cuz I'm a little low on funds.. even if it is only going to cost $35... I only have $8 in the bank, and I might have another $10 in change....
I also want to get a mini ipod with my next paycheck.. because I have to go to Halifax on the 15th of March for surgery... and I don't want to be stuck there again with no music... I can handle no tv.. and there's a computer I can use.. but no music... well.. that's just too much.... Anyway.. my breaks over.. *L* I may return later......

The New Computer Saga - Part 3

Well, on the way to work today, I stopped into the little computer shop.. and I told the fellow behind the desk about the lagging, and how I could not get the computers to sync together.. and how I thought there was supposed to be a dvd-rom installed..... he was puzzled about the lagging and freezing... he wants to take a look at it himself... and he's going to order and install a dvd-rom for me for 35 bucks... someone tell me if that's a good deal or not... I'm not sure... so, so far I'm satisfied... I'll let it go till the end of the week anyway.... I'm not sure if I want to reveal where I went yet, though..hehe.. we'll see... maybe friday...

The New Computer Saga Continued

So... last night after I wrote my last entry, and went home from work... hehe.. I started up my new computer and played around with a few things... I found some old pictures, and some old music that I'd been waiting to get back... which was cool... then I decided I'd try to install my new sims game... it didn't play very well on the old computer... I figured that the new, faster processor would make it work better.. I put the cd in the drive, and nothing happened.. I didn't think much of this... I figured that the autorun wasn't working.. so I tried to open the cd manually... and I got a message telling me to put the cd in the drive.. there's only one cd drive.. as opposed to my old computer, which has two... so the problem wasn't that I was using the wrong drive... so I thought that maybe there was something wrong with the drive.. I tried another cd.. and it worked... then I remember that the sims game I had was a special dvd edition... I was pretty sure that the drive was a dvd-rom as well.. so I tried a dvd.. it wouldn't read that either.. so now I definately know that I did not get what I paid for.. and this fellow will be getting a call from me on Monday morning when he opens... and he's either fixing it or giving me my money back...

The New Computer Saga

So, I went in and ordered a new computer on Monday.. It was supposed to have a super motherboard with onboard lan, 256 mbs of memory, 80 gb hard drive, awesome cd writer, Windows XP, he could put my old hard drive from my old computer in it, and he could have it ready for Wednesday.. I thought cool... two days and I'll have a new computer... I told him I'd be in Thursday morning to pick it up, Thursday, because my pay didn't come in until midnight on Wednesday.. He called me on Wednesday afternoon, and told me that the cases he ordered had been damaged in shipping, but there was one already built in Summerside, and it was on it's way up for me.. he told me I could get it sometime after 2pm on Thursday.. I didn't think anything of it.. I went in on Thursday to pick up my brand spanking new computer... first thing he tells me is that Windows XP is not installed on this computer, but Windows 2000 Professional is instead.. again, I thought nothing of it.. I figured I could set it up as a dual boot system, windows 2000 pro, and windows xp home.... I left the computer store and went right to future Shop and bought a router and a wireless usb adapter.. I already had some cabling that I was going to use to connect the router to one of the computers... so, we went home... the first thing I wanted to do was to get the two computers to "talk" to each other... with one computer being windows XP and the other being windows 2000, I couldn't get this to work, no matter what I tried to do... the first thing I tried was a direct connection between the 2 computers with the network cable..I ran the network connection wizard on the WINXP machine, no problem.. when I put the disk into the WIN2000 machine and tried to run it, it told me that the network setup wizard for WinXP worked only witn with Win98/ME/XP, not Win2000... so, I thought, ok.. I'll just set things up manually.... but no matter what I tried to do, the computers just didn't see each other.. I also noticed that every 20 minutes or so, the Win2000 machine would freeze.. The next thing I did was break out the router to just get the computers connected to the internet.. I plugged the adapter into the Win2000 machine and installed the drivers... no problem.. everything seemed ok, except I wasn't getting an ip... I plugged the cable that was connected to the WinXP computer into the router, and bingo.. I had an ip and pages... So.. what was I doing wrong?? I went onto the internet and started reading through the user guide on the page for the router... I found step by step instructions on setting up the adapter.. cool enough... I went through them and I finally was able to get both computers connected to the internet... Now, that was fine and dandy, except that it was set up the wrong way.. I wanted the adapter on the WinXP machine and the cable on the Win2000 machine... so, I unplugged the adapter from the Win2000 machine and plugged it into the WinXP machine, then began loading the drivers... all of a sudden up popped a message saying that the drivers that I was trying to install needed WinXP SP1 in order to install properly... now, as far as I knew, I had SP1 already, but I started downloading it again just to be sure.. for about an hour I sat and watched that blue bar crawl across my screen.. Then, when it looked to be almost finished, it froxe up, didn't move at all... I got tired of looking at this after a while and just shut the computer down.. I left them alone and watched some tv for a while and came back to them.. I turned the WinXP machine back on, and for the heck of it, tried installing the drivers again.. this time, they installed... I set up the adapter to connect to the internet, and again, had 2 computers on the net.. I decided that that was enough for now, and went to bed... In the morning, I decided that I'd try and set up my new Win2000 machine as a dual boot machine... I did a search for the boot.ini file, and didn't find it at first.. I wrote in the command to select the other operating system on the machine, saved it and restarted.... the page came up asking me which operating system I wanted, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.. I clicked on Windows XP, and got a message saying that it could not be found.. I rewrote the boot.ini file to specifically look for the windows file, but it still didn't work... I again gave up on this and left it alone..
This is as far as I've gotten so far.. Since it freezes up so much, I'm thinking of taking it back... I also want my Windows XP.. I'm sure I'll be able to get everything working once I have XP installed...
Anyone have any tips???

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My Dilemma...

I could be in trouble.... I've noticed in the last few weeks that I've started to develop feelings for someone who I talk to online... Ordinarily, I probably wouldn't think a whole lot of it.. I might tell the person about it, I might not.. depending on how well I know the person.... the problem here is.. although I've been talking to this guy for a while, a year at least... I really don't know a whole lot about him.. he knows a whole lot about me, but that's because I tend to talk about myself a lot.. *L* The things I don't know about him are many.... I don't know his name, where he lives (I know it's on the Island, but that's it), where he works, what kind of car he drives... I do know that we share a lot of common interests... same music tastes... and he has a vivid imagination... So.. my dilemma is this... should I sit on these feelings, and see if they go away, as they often do.... or, should I let him know about them.. and see where things go from there?? What should I do??