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Today, I bought something for myself. I rarely buy myself things anymore, the “pleasure” kind that actually has some long-standing value to it that I can use over and over again. Went to the local gaming store and picked up a Street Fighter PS2 fighter controller. You know, the one where the L and R buttons are on the front of the pad, rather the top. Laid out pretty much like a Saturn controller. Only cost me $20, too. Last time I went looking around for one, it was $30 at least because they come in the nice box and have a comic in it. So I now have a decent pad to play fighters on, because we all know how bad it is playing on a normal PS2 pad. Currently updating my MAME set too, I haven’t updated since .112 and I now it’s at .116. No idea how much has changed, but at least now I’m up to date.

My sister has come home from her job in Cali, which means she’s lugging her laptop around the house. Now, my DI-624 router either a) really sucks at wireless, or b) is located in a really bad position in the house. She can’t hold a steady connection. Normally this wouldn’t bother me so much, but the problem is that when her connection dies, the connection dies to everyone else in the house, even though every other connection is wired. Now, the router is under the computer desk up against the wall, upstairs. She’s using it downstairs. But even in her room (which is directly across the hall, not even 15 feet from the router) the laptop doesn’t get a full connection. So I don’t know if it’s the router sucking or what. I’m going to get an antenna cable so I can at least get the antenna out in the open instead of it being under the desk, that may solve the problem. I remember going over to Jess’ house and her computer having the same problem because the router was stashed away inside the desk instead of out in the open, I’m going to assume it’s the same issue here.

I’ve had a splitting headache since I came home today. And as much as I don’t want to blame it on the school’s HVAC system even though they fixed it, I think I will. Because now the entire building is FREEZING. It physically exhausts me and just makes me feel uncomfortable. I’m going to start bringing my sweaters with me again, I don’t care if it’s June. This is just getting ridiculous.

Work’s died down, thankfully. I can focus more on my last quarter of classes and the other side projects I have going on. Have a meeting Saturday out in Oswego for some web design job, my net admin hooked me up with this one. The outlook looks pretty good from what he’s told me, I’ll know for sure when the time comes.