Tuesday, August 17, 2004

So I got my car back, which was taken because of the heist a few days ago. I will never quite understand their punishments for things. First of all, I'm 19 years old, what an odd thing to be able to do. Meanwhile, my friend's parents are running their lives and issuing curfews. Crazy stuff. But no, all that happened to me is that my car got taken away. I could still go wherever I please, I just couldn't use my own car. So when one morning my dad is looking through the sunday advertisements from local merchants he looks to me and goes: "Oh hey, could you go down to Best Buy and pick this up for me?" uh. "And could you pick up Sebastian from the mall on the way back?" Sorry dad, but I can't drive anywhere. He just wanders off and gets into his car, and I shoot my mom a look, I think that me not being able to drive hurts him more then it does me. I've realized that my dad is a very lazy man. Hey, Chris, could you install this wireless card into my laptop, you know the one, I asked you to take a completely unnecessary trip to best buy to buy it and had you fill out the rebate for me. Yeah, could you do that? And then he sits in the backyard reading the paper or working on his golf swing. So I come back a little while later, and I like installing stuff see, it's fun, there is a real rush with new electronics, even when they aren't mine. So I go downstairs and walk up to him. So yeah dad I installed your wireless card, it was having some problems so I updated some software on your machine and cleaned up a few things, then I had to reconfigure the network so that it would work properly with your operating system, then set it up so that you could easily turn it off when you are out of our homes range. Also, I repositioned the antenna on the router and reconfigured the firewall a bit so that you could get excellent signal strength here in the back yard, and surf the web at your leisure. He looks up and goes, alright, thanks. Did you mail that rebate yet? Uh, no, but I'll keep it for myself since I just got you those things for free by cheating the rebate system at Best Buy. I go back inside and he sits there in his speedo surfing the web and looking at pie graphs of his finances. I love stuff like that. That is some cool stuff to do with your dad. Awesome. So now I drive around and have him send a fax for me, and everything is back to normal.

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