An afternoon at the Denlers’
This morning I woke up feeling slightly lousy but went to help set up for some dog agility trials on behalf of our 4-H club. Afterwards I went with the Denlers’ to their house to attempt to fix Emily’s computer (which was acting strangely, the network interface (onboard and PCI card) would receive but not send packets). Robert and I played C&C Renegades together while waiting for her to burn things to CDs, once this was accomplished I wiped the disk and installed Windows XP and in the process made a mistake and had to start over (all this occurred between the noon and evening meal).
Once WinXP was installed the network interfaces were still notwork interfaces so on a lark I went into the BIOS and set everything to the default “Optimal settings” setting and suddenly the network interfaces started working. So having three computers around and still being 45 minutes before dinner we (Robert, Emily, and I) played Renegades until we were called to dinner. At the table while waiting for Mr. Denler to appear, we discussed the game, Robert said we should look out because he had a tank and Emily said we did not need to worry because we had a humvee at which point I laughed quite heartily which would have been fine except I had just drunk ¼ of a cup of apple juice and had yet to swallow thus creating a mess everywhere. Such an embarrassing way to end the evening :-( / :-)