Nick Mason » Center http://myhome.nickm406.com My blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:53:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 FUN! http://myhome.nickm406.com/archives/660 http://myhome.nickm406.com/archives/660#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:41:59 +0000 Nick Mason http://myhome.nickm406.com/?p=660 The past week has been hectic. I worked SO much. Finally, I began to sleep again. Last Saturday, I did some lighting for our local Hospital's fundraiser. It was like Dancing With the Stars, just with local people. Before the show started, while reaching for the house lights dimmer, my hand hit the take control button and the house lights blacked out. LOL.
Today began as any normal day of school. Got up at 5. Got ready. Wend to 0 hour. Went to 1st hour. But then... all of the orchestras at our school departed to see the Madison Symphony Orchestra (as we do every year.) The bus ride up was super... I took pictures of unsuspecting people, and Tony gave a 'catholic sermon' in his Irish accent. It was beautiful.
After arriving to the Overture Center, we filed inside and listened to the beautiful music for about 1 and a half hours. It was wonderful... especially the soloists. There was one on violin and then one on the piano. The pianist was the best. She was a sophomore in college and won the highest award. I cannot describe the music in words.
After our stomachs began sounding, the concert finished and we headed on over to Monona to eat. There is a Noodles & Company, Red Robin, Buffalo Wild Wings, Taco Bell, Starbucks, and a few other food places. After getting off our bus, people started jogging towards Noodles. Of course I went to Noodles! Tony, Nicole, a few other people and I ran to the door. I was the first in line... and the line behind me grew FAST. It went out the door! I ate a small macaroni and cheese, small tomato bisque, and one flat bread. Oh was it ever orgasmic! After some talking and munching, some of us moseyed on over to Starbucks. There, I bought and sipped a Vanilla Bean, which is my favourite. YUM! I also was lucky and got a free tall drink! Yay for randomness!
We had to leave shortly after that to go back to school. I had to go to 6th hour still... geometry. EW. There was a substitute and the work was extremely easy.
After my school day was complete, Tony and I went to the auto parts place, and they gave me some estimates for my brakes. Then, we went to Wal-Mart and I bought some hairspray and engine coolant. My coolant was dry-empty! No wonder it was overheating... LOL.
Then I worked at 4. The damn shamrock shakes NEVER END!!! Especially because it's St. Patricks Day.

]]> http://myhome.nickm406.com/archives/660/feed 0 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 does not install http://myhome.nickm406.com/archives/264 http://myhome.nickm406.com/archives/264#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:38:18 +0000 Nick Mason http://myhome.nickm406.com/?p=264 I just recently ran into a problem after I re-installed Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 a few days ago. I tried to update my .NET Framework to v.3.5 so I could run Visual Studio Express, and every time the installation failed while trying to install .NET Framework 3.5.
So, I tried to install 3.5 off of the installation packages off of Microsoft.com, but still, to no success, I kept getting errors while trying to install any 3.5 package. So after some research, I found a neat tool that removes all .NET framework instances on your computer, and then you can install 3.5. Strange why this tool works, but here's how to do it:
Download
http://cid-27e6a35d1a492af7.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Blog_Tools/dotnetfx_cleanup_tool.zip
or
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/attachment/8904493.ashx
How to Start the Process
First, go to your Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Next, uninstall every version of .NET Framework that is installed on your machine.
Next, save and run the tool that you have downloaded from the links above.
Restart your computer.
Now, you must install ALL versions of the .NET Framework from here
(1.0) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D7158DEE-A83F-4E21-B05A-009D06457787&displaylang=en
(1.1) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en
(1.1 SP1) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A8F5654F-088E-40B2-BBDB-A83353618B38&displaylang=en
(2.0) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en
(2.0 SP1) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=79BC3B77-E02C-4AD3-AACF-A7633F706BA5&displaylang=en
(3.0) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en
(3.0 SP1) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EC2CA85D-B255-4425-9E65-1E88A0BDB72A&displaylang=en
There. Now install 3.5
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en
And feel free to install SP1 of 3.5
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AB99342F-5D1A-413D-8319-81DA479AB0D7&displaylang=en

Cool huh? I spent a long time finding these answers with Google, so they obviously need to be spread!! (re-written by me)
Hope this helps others.

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