Computer work and a reunion

Saturday was a bit overcast so that exluded yard work. I had a meeting in the morning at church and when I got home Kathy and I drove to Marietta for some computer shopping. Her computer is just out of reach of the wireless router it seems. It must be getting old and just doesn't have the diaphram support it once had becasue it just can't scream loud enough to be heard across the house.

I bought a range expander to put in the living room so it can pick up the signal from the router and shout it out to the other side of the house, nothing original, just repeats what it's heard. Reminds me of some people I've met.

I got on my Mac and configured it according to the instructions but could not connect to the new signal. Then I discovered that I couldn't connect to the old signal either. I somehow corrupted the router when configuring the new. I had to call technical support then and they had me reset my old router to the factory defaults. I then had to reset the password for WEP and eventually got everything working again. You do know that I work on computers for a living, right? I hate computers.

So tonight I have to try it again. "We'll see" he said skeptically.

And on Saturday night I went to my 37th year high school reunion (I know I don't seem that old). Actually we celebrated the reunions of classes 1968 - 1975 which was more fun.

I was really amazed at how well everyone has held up over the years, especially the women. Some of them didn't seem like they'd aged at all. Looks like someone put them in a tupperware bowl for a number of years and they just quit aging. And everyone was so friendly and nice, having long ago buried the cliques that they had joined in school. I guess we all found out that they didn't mean anything anyway.

High school is such a twilight zone anyway. You take a bunch of immature half-grown people and put them together in an environment that they basically build themselves and you're destined for trouble. The cute ones don't hang with the normal ones and the normal ones despise the cute ones; the jocks don't understand the nerds or musicians and the nerds and musicians don't care what the jocks think.

But, there are some rare individuals that mix well in all the groups and I was fortunate enough to be one of those, although I didn't date any cheerleaders back then (dang it). I just wanted to have fun and I did. I got in a lot of trouble and didn't study that I can remember but somehow made it out on time.

Anyway, it was fun seeing everyone again, even those that I didn't know too well. There were way too many singles there because of failed marriages, but that seems to be 'normal' now days.

I wish all the kids in school now could see what it's going to be like later on down the road where no one cares what you look like or what kind of car you drive. We're all just struggling to get by and realize that those things really don't matter much anymore. And I'm sure a good many of the 'cute' ones which they had married an uncute one that would remain faithful over the years. Only a guess though.