It’s Far From Over
July 2nd, 2003 • Geeking Out / Randomness / Travel
As I write this, I’m sitting in a room on the fifteenth floor of the Omni Hotel at the CNN Center in Atlanta. The fifteenth floor also happens to be the top floor, where the nice rooms are. Ah, the benefits of being staff for an event. Unfortunately, a couple things are lacking. Biggest gripe: no ethernet. Second-biggest: no hot tub.
So if there’s no ethernet and I have no dial-up service since I use cable at home, how am I on now? When I posed this question to Jeremiah, his first answer was Convince a newborn calf that you were its mother by mooing incessantly.
Well, yes, I did that once, but it was not the answer to my connectivity issues. No, to solve that problem, I bowed to the inevitable and installed some evil crap on my laptop. Fortunately, the Mac version isn’t as intrusive, so I’ll be able to get rid of it easily (he says optimistically). I really couldn’t argue with free. I tried, but it went something like this…
Me: I need internet access. I’m suffering without my NetNewsWire fix. They have ethernet at this place, right?
Modem port in desk: I laugh at your pitiful attempts to insert your ethernet cable.
Me: Maybe there’s a wireless network here.
Wireless (or lack thereof): NO GOOD!
Jerry: I have CompuServe. Maybe we can get online with that.
CompuServe: CRASH ON LAUNCH EVERY TIME!
Me: Damn. Foiled again.
Brad: I have an AOL cd that came in a magazine.
Me: Ewww, AOL.
Bizarro Me: But it’s free!
Me: Free, you say?
Bizarro Me: And it’s AOL!
Me: Listen, Bizarro Adam, even if it’s free, the fact that it’s AOL isn’t a good thing. But an addict needs his fix. Ok, I’ll do it.
AOL: All your credit card are belong to us.
Me: ::sigh::
Anyway, other than the ongoing lack-of-connectivity saga, things have gone pretty smoothly. I’m loathing the character generator <cartman>so very very much</cartman>. Please, if you’re going to buy a character generator, don’t buy a FireWriter. Reasons it sucks: 1) You can’t import text from a computer. Everything has to be entered onto the unit using its keyboard. 2) Text editing is really, really ridiculously slow. You hit the arrow key and it responds about a second later. Not acceptable. So there’s been mucho frustration with that, but the job of editing and formatting all the songs is almost done. Whee. Oh, and the worship leader guy seems to have a bit of a strong personality and an "I’m-gonna-get-what-I-want" attitude. Ugh. BUT it’s all good.
Why is it good? Well, the group I’m with is mad fun. Everybody is really cool and fun to hang with. The guy I’m rooming with (who I didn’t know before coming here) is cool too. He’s the brother of one of the guys I went to Ireland with, and he’s running some of the lights for the youth sessions. More people are coming down tomorrow, yay! Tomorrow also begins the actual conference, so interestingness could ensue. I’ll keep you posted on events as they unfold.
♫ Porcupine Tree - Trains
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dan
July 3rd, 2003 at 12:18 am
that's some funny jank, yo. it's irritating for those of us with wireless that the rest of the planet hasn't quite gotten its act together. where are all the access points the apple site promised? by the way, tell bizarro adam I said 'hi'.
Erica
July 3rd, 2003 at 12:21 am
who is your roommate's brother?
dave
July 3rd, 2003 at 12:40 am
wow, two comments and the entry is less than an hour old. adam, you sure are getting a loyal following.
hope everything goes well at the convention. i think you should put the words to one of Marilyn Manson's songs instead of one of the praise songs. can you be fired from your job? if so, maybe you better wait till the last day.
i think you should write more often as bizarro adam.
julie
July 3rd, 2003 at 2:12 am
Thank you very much for the transcript. It made me laugh on a night at work that is less than fun.
You're cool.
adam
July 3rd, 2003 at 8:09 am
Dan - Bizarro Adam said to tell you "The pride of the peaches is strong here."
Erica - Phil.
Dave - Best. Idea. Ever. (The Manson one).
Julie - You're welcome.
Ok, time for shower and then food and then teh suck of the cg.
ney
July 3rd, 2003 at 10:46 am
Dave's idea was quite hilarious, you should try it. Hang in there, at least you were able to get some internet action. You can do it. You can do it nine times.