if i fits, i sits

right when I was planning to brush my teeth, I found this hairball clogging the sink.

so sad when an awesome, old cycling cap bites the dust

the cat days of summer?

fastest, lightest road setup

my retired track bike is my fair weather commuter bike. that's fast and light!

glooooooow

fred: when does it start?

fred: when DOES this party start? i have some serious plans for a floor-scrap feast this afternoon

party-ready garage...

this is what you do with living room furniture when *someone* replaces it for your kid's graduation... a pop-up living room in the garage!

knot... NOT

as in not a boy scout and not a sailor.

think i need a new tire?

maybe... but when i got home, there was a rock stuck in one of them and it still wasn't breaking through the case.

my bench has not been this clean since...

my bench has not been this clean since i built it! it's amazing the effect having a graduation party at your house can have on your life.

perfect day to watch soccer

73° F, sunny, low humidity. GOOOOO NSSA CYCLONES!

piki likes "his" new rug

*cats* amiright?

you bet i wear my father's day socks!

coooooooooool

wait... the doodle knows your birthday?

hmm... g+ does things i never expected it to do. the doodle knows my b-day. i kind of powered through impressed, flattered, surprised, and ended at a little creeped out.

sneaky dog

"sneaking" mom's dog in to visit my dad, tonight.

current status

quick fix for wireless failure on a macbook pro

 

Wireless went out on my work computer. That sucks because I'm waiting for a refresh to arrive that has been ordered. Unfortunately, I'm traveling and need wireless as I can't find any coffee shops around here that will let me plug in to do my work! 

I needed a quick fix fast. Since macbooks have built in wireless and have for years, the market for add-on mac wireless networking isn't the greatest. Since I'm currently in southern Alabama and needed my wifi to work today (Monday), I was limited to something I could get together yesterday (when I'd discovered that my buggy wireless card had finally given up the ghost). 

I found a Netgear WNA1000M at a nearby Radio Shack and, of course, it has no OSX software with it. I stood in the store waving off the two sales associates and did some quick searches on my phone for "driver wifi mac osx netgear" and one very helpful link came up:

http://goodliffe.blogspot.com/2012/04/installing-realtek-usb-wifi-drivers-on.html

I'm going to repeat some of Mr. Goodliffe's information here not to steal credit for it but to, hopefully, make it easier for people to find. (Hence, my direct reference to his blog entry.)

Suffice it to say, the info from that 2012 blog post is still relevant on Mavericks. I'm running OSX 10.9.3.

It looks like all of the download packages for OSX 10.8 are the same. I downloaded the one from theRTL8188CUS section.

Here was my process:

1. download drivers for OSX 10.8 (had to do on another machine and copy over via jump drive as I had no wifi...)
2. unzip download file
3. run installer.pkg and make sure it installs with no error
4. once installed, then... THEN... open the packaging on your Netgear equipment. (if the driver install doesn't work, you can still return an unopened package)  ;-)
5. Plug the adapter into an open USB slot and the Wireless Network Utility should launch. 
6. Then... add a profile for the network you're on and poof...  INTERNETS!

miss you so much

I'm eating your favorite mints because they taste like your kisses.