My first client! kind of .. and Eewwwwwwwww

The day started off in a rather boring fashion. I woke up, and my room was boiling, so I went out into the sitting room to sleep on the couch. Then I moved to my parent's room when they left. My room is always the hottest in the morning. It doesn't help that I close the door when I go to sleep.

I didn't really wake up until Mel's uncle called again. I was helping him fix his net connection over the phone. It didn't really help much. I had him reformat his P4. He had to come over to get the XP cds and stuff, and I walked him through a little of the install. Its quite a handful to give tech support over the phone. I guess I'm a little glad that I didn't end up getting that tech support job at the ISP a while ago.

You'd think it'd be okay if you just format and put everything back the way it was. We even tried to use system restore, and setting up connection sharing manually. No such luck. Firstly we couldn't open the network properties of his internet connection, secondly, the system restore wasn't even working. All it was giving us was a message that said we couldn't restore. Gee thanks microsoft, I love your error messages, so useful.

So we decided to format. That didn't solve the problem. Spent ages trying to get it to work using the home netwokring wizard and stuff like that. No such luck. Cutting 5 hours short, we just decided (because I brought my modem just in case) that we'd give my modem a go. It worked like a charm. Not only that, it also lets him share the net without any computer being on. Handy huh.

Also, it turns out that there was something with his iBook settings as well. That wasn't actually the main problem, as his iMac seemed to have the same problems. So I gave him my modem, picked up a modem on the way back home from Wilson (and some maccas while I was at it), and yeah. Done.

So I got home, ate my maccas, and sat around. Fi was feeling really shitty. I just found out why. There was seriously 2 kgs of vomit in the bathroom. Talk about ew. I was dry retching just from standing there. *shudder* It was so bad. I think I'll just leave it at that.