{"id":123,"date":"2006-08-24T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/and-i-already-lost-it\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:46","slug":"and-i-already-lost-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/and-i-already-lost-it\/","title":{"rendered":"And I already lost it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened since the 15th of August, a mere week and two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>In brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I completed my internship at Microsoft.  Everything seems to have wrapped up fairly well, though Paul says that one of the bugs I worked on (for <em>three weeks<\/em>) may actually have been <strong>in vain<\/strong>.  I sincerely hope that is not the case.  Please don&#8217;t tell me if it is, Paul, or Allen.<\/li>\n<li>I shipped all my stuff home to Green Bay, via Fedex this time, to <strong>attempt<\/strong> to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmcgeek.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/first-post.html\">previous misfortunes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I moved home, only arriving some 2 hours late courtesy of a <strong>minor fuel leak<\/strong> in the left wing of the MD-80 plane we were flying from Seattle to Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>I helped my parents set up a &#8220;home office&#8221;, which basically means combine the following items into one of the new rooms in our basement:\n<ul>\n<li>My desk<\/li>\n<li>My old stereo<\/li>\n<li>My old server computer<\/li>\n<li>My sister&#8217;s 15&#8243; LCD monitor<\/li>\n<li>My networking cables<\/li>\n<li>My 8-port switch<\/li>\n<li>My second-best spare keyboard &#038; mouse (well, best until my new wireless set gets here on Friday)<\/li>\n<li>My spare USB cable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It turned out pretty nice:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blogpics\/newoffice.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blogpics\/newoffice_t.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>I went down to Madison to visit Jeni &#038; Dave and drop off a vanload of stuff for my apartment.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>lost the key<\/strong> to said apartment, within 30 minutes of getting it from Dave, and before even setting foot in the new place.<\/li>\n<li>I received the first 6 boxes of stuff from Seattle, in relatively good shape, though I have yet to open my computer box up and assess any damage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ccmcgeek\">I joined MySpace<\/a>&#8230; On the upshot it only took 5 visits to the same page before &#8220;Sorry! An unexpected error has occurred&#8221; stopped blocking me from confirming my registration, and only 10 clicks on the link to add Jeni as a friend before it actually sent the request.<\/li>\n<li>I submitted my request for a replacement battery in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/ibook_powerbook\/batteryexchange\/index.html\">Apple&#8217;s battery recall<\/a>.  I should get my new battery in <em>4 to 6 weeks.<\/em>  What happens if it <strong>blows up<\/strong> between now and then??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened since the 15th of August, a mere week and two days ago. In brief: I completed my internship at Microsoft. Everything seems to have wrapped up fairly well, though Paul says that one of the bugs I worked on (for three weeks) may actually have been in vain. I sincerely hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}