Sunday, May 30, 2004
Settling In Could Happen Yet
While it never stopped looking like a moving van explosion, our place is even more disrupted than it had been. We’re in the process of moving the living room to the computer room and vice-versa. Sadly, this is going to include moving the couch, which is a near impossible task. For which we will try to recruit Bob to help after we see Shrek 2 today. Shhhh.... He doesn’t know that yet.
So far we have my computer desk and its beige accessories moved and running, which led to a bit of a surprise. In the computer room, we had to run phone cord around the corner slightly to the wall jack in the kitchen for DSL. No biggie, but less convenient than having the phone jack three feet away.
Except the tiny little surprise of finding the living room phone jack was dead. Doh! I have to see if I can fix that today. Meanwhile, we went from having a modest line around the corner to a tripworthy, 25 foot line across a hall and into another room.
We also had moved my big antique bookcase out of the computer room, where it was back to back with the computer desk. Today I need to vacuum the newly clear area, move stuff around, and vacuum where the couch will go before we go to the movie. If possible, move more stuff around so Deb can setup her desk in the living room. After all, we built her computer last night… woohoo!
It’s a P4 3 GHz on a D865PERL board, with a 128 MB video card, 80 GB hard drive, DVD, CDRW, and 512 MB RAM. Oooooh. Now I need to make it so both of us are on the DSL, which will involve putting a NIC in my machine, which inexplicably lacks one.
But enough geekness. It’s time to get to the tasks at hand. I’m trying to decide whether I am wakeful and patient enough to see if the phone jack in this room can be fixed before I do anything else, or if I want to go straight to more physical effort. At least I seem to be able to type straight, unlike when I left my first comments on other blogs this morning.