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| Saturday, October 5, 2002 |
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Linkin' Log 
| | It's 17:17 PDST and we're up and running at the new place. I'm sitting in my new office looking out the window and under the trees to my wife's office on the back side of the house. The wifi base station is there, and I'm here and the whole thing rocks. We're getting 3.0Mb down and 300Kb up, as promised, from Cox High Speed Internet, which was here on time and delivered the goods. The station covers the house, office and yard just fine. No need for a remote hot spot like in the old place, which is good. I'll keep that baby packed in a bag, ready to 'cast packets wherever I go and the provider welcomes it. |
| | This is such a nice scene. The office is a standalone building with glass all around and room to spare. I'm listening live to KPIG's FolkScene Channel 1 on my iTunes tuner and my Cambridge speakers, which sound as close to perfect as you'll get from a $100 order over the Net. Don't know the song, but I love the lyrics: |
| | Take off your defenses
Like you were taking off your clothes... |
| | KPIG does such good radio. Damn. |
| | Meanwhile, the unpacked boxes number more than a hundred, and the kid is following me around telling me I prommmissssed something or other. So I'm going to go have fun with the kid before the DishTV installer comes, which should be in about 20 minutes or so. Then we're going out to dinner somewhere. |
| | By the way, the new place has something I've never had anywhere I've ever lived, including numerous apartments: a pool. |
| | The kid thought it was too cold, but the thermometer said 76°, and that was perfect for me after a day hauling boxes in and out of trucks and up and down stairs. |
| | By the way, I got in the pool on the theory that if I was completely wet the Cox installer would come. It worked. |
Redrawing the line in the sand
And awaaay we go!
| | The old house is all but empty. Amazing how large the place looks with nothing in it. Strange too how the sound reverberates off the walls. |
| | The moving men are roaming around, picking up loose items: old telephones, tiny Lego parts, empty coffee cups and soda cans, lenghs of speaker wire. |
| | I just got my email: 103 items, including 85 pieces of spam. Gotta set up SpamAssassin or something. Next week. (Right.) |
| | Anyway, this is my penultimate post from the old place. In a minute I'll disconnect the wi-fi station from the cable modem and haul it all over to the new place, where Cox will come sometime today between 12 and 5pm. Until then, I'll leave you with the item above, my ultimate post, which some Linux Journal readers tell me is one of the more important pieces I've written lately. That would be true if it actually has an effect. We'll see. |
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