%title Bwuh.
%date 2008-08-28 23:24:00
:diary:livejournal:fossils:

School and work are taking a lot more time than I anticipated.  Sorry I'm not around online and not posting here very much.  Still working on all of those projects underway, just not nearly as much.  Should calm down soon.

Classes are okay, nothing great, nothing terrible.  The new building is amazing, though, and I feel like I'm actually getting to help in some respects.  With our regular replacement cycle of two years at work, we pulled 52 relatively good computers (3GHz, 1G RAM, 40G SATA hard drives, but only two PCI slots, no PCI-E or AGP, so onboard video only).  I pulled some strings and initiated some dialogs, and somehow got 19 of those computers, plus 21 fairly decent 17" LCDs, PLUS 10 laptops taken over to the new building.  All of those desktops are going in the music composition lab, which I'll be helping to set up.  The Music people didn't know about the free equipment transfers, so they're all excited to be getting this stuff for free from the library.  There's a whole lot of politics involved, really: campus surplus would have us transfer the machines through them (charging $25 per computer, plus the cost of recycling the current hard drive and buying a new one) and have the music department buy the computers from them afterwards.  As the department would be using student tech fees, which bought the computers in the first place, to do this, students would effectively be buying the computers <em>twice</em>.  No one in LTS is a fan of that, though, so we do our best to work around that by technically willing the computers to an individual over in the new department.  Kinda sneaky, I guess, but worth it.

I guess that's it, really. x.x