As my posting mid-week suggests, I've gotten internet access set up in Moncton. Not that anyone seems to care. :P

On Monday night at some point my phone was hooked up. I was at work though so I didn't realize it was hooked up until Tuesday. On Tuesday I called Sympatico about getting an internet account (though I had no idea what sort of timeframe to expect for getting hooked up). I also tried multiple times to call a couple people to let them know I now had phone access but nobody was home so I went to work and did my thing.

Today (Wednesday), I tried once more to get in touch with people but there must be some sort of regulation against being near your phones or something so no luck. But I did receive a call from Sympatico letting me know that my internet account was up and running.

Online I go with my rather old laptop. It only has Windows 95 and Internet Explorer 3.0 on it. I figure first thing I should do is get an updated browser. Unfortunately IE 6 doesn't support Windows 95 and whenever Microsoft releases a new browser they stop offering the old one. So I ended up getting the latest version of Mozilla instead (which, although a bit slow on this ol' beast, is pretty nice and supports Win 95).

After that I try to get ICQ but there's no ICQ available for Win 95. I get Trillian instead. Trillian's good but it doesn't load up your contact list like ICQ does AND you can only search for people using their ICQ #. I never thought I'd have this problem so I never bothered exporting my contact list when I was at home. So I have a completely empty list around 3 PM. I figure, no problem I'll just set an NA message explaining my situation and telling people to message me. If I leave it online while I'm at work I'll probably get a good chunk of my list filled out when I get home. When I get home 10 hours later I find one message (out of a possible 40 or so). It's now been on for 12 hours and it's still one. Talk about making you feel special.

Work's going pretty well. Things are really slow most of the time though in order to accomodate those who are less knowledgable about computers. I understand the necessity of going slow but it can be dull at times. Ah well, only 4 days of classroom training left and then we get to hit the floor.

Quote of the YesterDay: "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit."
Bustin's constant Tick guessing paid off when I used a quote from The Tick. It's one of those quotes that really embodies Tick too.

Quote of the Day: "Another day, another box of stolen pens"
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