Ghost and The Hut

...and: the most overused blogger line ever-- "So, I haven't posted for awhile..."

I started regular shifts at Pizza Hut this week. Surprisingly, it's not as bad as I originally thought. Besides the fact that it's a food biz job and not writing code, I look forward to going to work every day. The coworkers are agreeable, I don't really have to deal with customers (at least not yet) and the food is great. I'm sure, given time, I'll hate all of it, but for now it's working for me. Getting paid on Mondays is a perk, too. Mondays are usually dreaded by those who work, and with Friday paydays, you have to get up early on Saturday to take your check to the bank. Who wants to get up early? Not me.

My PC hiccupped over the weekend, and XP got scrambled enough that it didn't feel like booting. Avoiding the hassle of troubleshooting, I opted to do a complete fresh install. While waiting for its rebirth, I thought to myself, "Why do this every time?" So I went and got myself a copy of Ghost and made an image once I got everything up and running. Having little experience with the app (everything was pre-scripted at Baldwin-Wallace) I quickly found out that getting booted properly to reload the image was a real hassle. I'll spare you the gory details, but what I ended up doing was making a bootable cd-r set, with the image spanned across two discs, and meshed together a few scripts to automate the whole process. Worked like a charm. The biggest bump I hit along the way was that MS-DOS will only recognize the first optical drive in the system. Keep that in mind if you ever try this and get stuck.

Thanks to Argon for the tip :)