Oh, the Spoddness!
For a few weeks there have been little things wrong with my laptop, such as the search utility not working and the wireless LAN never working. So I decided last night to back-up all my files and rebuild the laptop from the restore partition. And with the Tokyo Re-contracting Conference coming up, I'm hoping to use the wireless network at the Keio Plaza Hotel.
The rebuild went well, though it took longer than I thought, and was ready enough to take into school this morning. Didn't I get a surprise when I turned it on at school and found that it had found a wireless network and was asking if I wanted to connect to it! I mean, for a start, for there to be a wireless network at school was pretty cool, but for it to be in range if the English room, well, that was fantastic! I connected to the network with no problems and was soon reading up on England's friendly victory over Columbia. Once I had Outlook and MSN Messenger reconfigured I was talking to JETs around Niigata at work too. Admittidly, the wi-fi signal was pretty weak so it cut out every ten minutes or so, but still I had 1MB/sec internet on my laptop so I couldn't really complain.
But I think staying up late to finish the rebuild might have had an effect on my climbing tonight. I started off well, but quickly got tired and frustrated. Still, it was good to go. One of the climbers, Haruki, was teaching his nephew, Ryo, how to climb. Later the rest of Ryo's familys arrived and I got talking to his sister, who goes to Muikamachi Junior High, and his father, Nagumo. We chatted between climbs and it turns out Nagumo and Haruki are both into sports cars, each owning a Sports 70 and a Porsche respectivley. Apparently they like to drive out to Gunma, take onsen and eat soba. Nice way to spend a Saturday I reckon. We exchanged cards so hopefully we'll keep in touch.
The rebuild went well, though it took longer than I thought, and was ready enough to take into school this morning. Didn't I get a surprise when I turned it on at school and found that it had found a wireless network and was asking if I wanted to connect to it! I mean, for a start, for there to be a wireless network at school was pretty cool, but for it to be in range if the English room, well, that was fantastic! I connected to the network with no problems and was soon reading up on England's friendly victory over Columbia. Once I had Outlook and MSN Messenger reconfigured I was talking to JETs around Niigata at work too. Admittidly, the wi-fi signal was pretty weak so it cut out every ten minutes or so, but still I had 1MB/sec internet on my laptop so I couldn't really complain.
But I think staying up late to finish the rebuild might have had an effect on my climbing tonight. I started off well, but quickly got tired and frustrated. Still, it was good to go. One of the climbers, Haruki, was teaching his nephew, Ryo, how to climb. Later the rest of Ryo's familys arrived and I got talking to his sister, who goes to Muikamachi Junior High, and his father, Nagumo. We chatted between climbs and it turns out Nagumo and Haruki are both into sports cars, each owning a Sports 70 and a Porsche respectivley. Apparently they like to drive out to Gunma, take onsen and eat soba. Nice way to spend a Saturday I reckon. We exchanged cards so hopefully we'll keep in touch.
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