Life to this point
Well, it's been pretty hectic so far this week, what with trying to get my schedule all figured out and homework done and everything. Should have posted earlier, but oh well... I haven't had a lot of free time and being sick has taken a lot of energy out of me.
So let's see...
My roommate Nate brought a SNES back from his parents' house in Iowa. Only problem is that two of the controllers don't hardly work, and one of them has a messed up R-button. Well, one of them seemed to work when you jammed the wire into the controller really hard, but not consistently. So, thinking it was a problem with the solder being not secure in there somewhere, I offered to fix it. This, however, did not turn out to be the case. I took the thing apart, identified a wire that might be having problems (although it looked like it was a decent connection to me), clipped it, and re-soldered it onto the controller. I was thinking "sweet, that was easy, now to plug it in and watch all the problems be gone." Yeah, not so much. Now it doesn't work at all. :( No idea why, either... unless the bad connection is inside the part that has the insulation-stuff over it, and I'm a little hesitant to take that off. Of course, it doesn't work at all now, so what's to stop me? I felt bad about breaking the thing totally. Though granted I did warn Nate that it might happen, and he okayed it.
Then, on top of that, right after I got back from racquetball, I got this extremely bad abdominal pain. It was really kind of scary, because the last time I got that was when I had a nasty infection while on my mission for 2-3 weeks. It had been bad enough at that time that I had seriously wondered if it was going to kill me. So, it was not a pleasant flashback. I think it was a drink I had bought at the Twilight Zone (convenience store on campus) just before that, and it didn't agree with me. (Fuze, if anyone's interested-- beware). Ilya, a friend of mine, who I was playing racquetball with said that he'd felt a little discomfort as well (he bought one also), but it wasn't bad. I think maybe that said infection on the mission just made my system more sensitive to such things.
So, I was much frustrated with this, then there was the controller, and I just was not in a good mood. That and I wasn't able to see bel because of said problem, so I felt bad. *sigh* But, such is life. I'll get to see her today, so hopefully that'll make it all better. :D
On the plus side, right now I'm at work, feeling much better-- whatever it was that made me sick worked itself out of my system-- and sorta-kinda looking forward to classes.
So let's see...
My roommate Nate brought a SNES back from his parents' house in Iowa. Only problem is that two of the controllers don't hardly work, and one of them has a messed up R-button. Well, one of them seemed to work when you jammed the wire into the controller really hard, but not consistently. So, thinking it was a problem with the solder being not secure in there somewhere, I offered to fix it. This, however, did not turn out to be the case. I took the thing apart, identified a wire that might be having problems (although it looked like it was a decent connection to me), clipped it, and re-soldered it onto the controller. I was thinking "sweet, that was easy, now to plug it in and watch all the problems be gone." Yeah, not so much. Now it doesn't work at all. :( No idea why, either... unless the bad connection is inside the part that has the insulation-stuff over it, and I'm a little hesitant to take that off. Of course, it doesn't work at all now, so what's to stop me? I felt bad about breaking the thing totally. Though granted I did warn Nate that it might happen, and he okayed it.
Then, on top of that, right after I got back from racquetball, I got this extremely bad abdominal pain. It was really kind of scary, because the last time I got that was when I had a nasty infection while on my mission for 2-3 weeks. It had been bad enough at that time that I had seriously wondered if it was going to kill me. So, it was not a pleasant flashback. I think it was a drink I had bought at the Twilight Zone (convenience store on campus) just before that, and it didn't agree with me. (Fuze, if anyone's interested-- beware). Ilya, a friend of mine, who I was playing racquetball with said that he'd felt a little discomfort as well (he bought one also), but it wasn't bad. I think maybe that said infection on the mission just made my system more sensitive to such things.
So, I was much frustrated with this, then there was the controller, and I just was not in a good mood. That and I wasn't able to see bel because of said problem, so I felt bad. *sigh* But, such is life. I'll get to see her today, so hopefully that'll make it all better. :D
On the plus side, right now I'm at work, feeling much better-- whatever it was that made me sick worked itself out of my system-- and sorta-kinda looking forward to classes.