34,000 Things That Could Be Wrong

I feel like such a dummy. I used to be an alpha geek, now I’m lucky if I even can claim the title of plain ol’ geek. My com­puter knowl­edge peeked around the cusp of the Windows98/Windows2000 change over. I never really learned any­thing about net­work­ing and it is start­ing to show.

I man­aged to get both com­put­ers to con­nect to the Inter­net through the router. But I can’t get them to talk to each other. I’ve turned on file and printer shar­ing, I shared the my doc­u­ments folder on both machines, they belong to the same work­group. A cou­ple of the tuto­ri­als I’ve found on the web have mostly rehashed the same old pro­ce­dures that come from XP’s built in Net­work Trou­bleshooter. I have run XP’s Net­work Setup Wiz­ard, but always stop short because it looks like it wants to change some set­ting that I used to get the Inter­net shar­ing to work and I don’t want to muck that up.

About halfway to work this morn­ing the Emperor clicked past the 34,000 mile mark. I wanted to say rolled over, but the Miata has a dig­i­tal odome­ter so it doesn’t roll at all, it just blinks. The 3 nines change to zeros and the thou­sands digit advances one. I kinda miss the rolling action. Of course some­times the zeros didn’t exactly line up nice until a few more miles down the road and that both­ered the anal reten­tive por­tion of my brain. Maybe the dig­i­tal is bet­ter after all.