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Chapter two covered connectivity, which I found interesting. I know how things are linked up, how to make my own ethernet cables, and how to troubleshoot a router. I know how to run a server and how it is connected, but the book showed amusing little diagrams that make it all look so simple. I also thought it was amusing in the internet address section where they talk about Facebook(s) with the added "s" to a proper noun (an individual page would be called a profile, mind you). It gave me a good laugh, and the search techniques, etc. served to reinforce what I already knew.

The primary skill I would like to acquire would be proficiency in Excel, as I have said before. I do not believe I have gained much from the Word, XP, or textbook related information (although that is not to say I have learned nothing). If anything, the information provided in the book and the diagrams mostly reinforces that my methods are correct, or that I am not erroneous in my thinking on "how things work."

Today has been a stressful day already. I woke up early and wrote two two-page papers and one four-page paper, along with two paragraph critiques on about fifty pages of reading that I also did. Now, the funny part is the procrastination that was involved. Granted, I got called into work yesterday, which put a damper on the day I had set aside for homework. But really, I also had all of Saturday and much of Thursday and Friday (before work) to do it. Of course, I left it to the last minute, and it ended up biting me in the butt. That is my rant.