Day 2:
I woke to another misty and dreary western PA day. I quickly passed through the kitchen to head downstairs to the basement to check the internet when something caught my eye as I passed the garage. There lying lifeless on the garage floor was a rather large wild turkey. Apparently it was heading towards the corn coup when it met its doom. I didn?t even make it a full week without a cold-blooded killing, thank you George, my hero. It didn?t take long for the bird to be neck-less and de-feathered. Mmmm, I can?t wait for thanksgiving this year.
When I got downstairs and cleared the mental pictures of turkey carcass out of my mind I got to work putting together the little utility cart that has been sitting in it?s box for over a year in order to put the fax machine on, which had previously been sitting on the floor. I strung some CAT5 from the router over to the other side of the room to my computer desk but have to wait a bit from Travis to bring me a switch. Our little basement living is almost done; it just needs a few little touches. If I can get George to clean the turkey guts and feathers off of his hands maybe he?ll help me lift the big TV into the entertainment center so I can play Project Gotham Racing 2 on my Xbox. We shall see.
Ok Travis and Amanda were busy today so instead I called up my cousin Nick. We went out to Lowes in Cranberry and bought some utility shelving unit supplies to replace what?s in the bedroom closet. Nick helped me put it in and it looks great but I had to run him home. Sara and I went over to my parent?s house where my mom was cooking us a big roast beef and mash potatoes meal, delicious.
After dinner we went across the road to Amanda and Travis? place to watch a movie and chill. We watched Napoleon Dynamite and drank some Rolling Rocks. After the movie we played the Battle of the Sexes board game which was fun. Travis and I won, we are so metro. Travis hooked me up with some networking gear that I needed. He gave me a 4 port switch, a CAT5 coupler and about 15 feet of CAT5. I was able to run a hard line across the basement to my two machines and then to the Xbox for Xbox live action.
So thus far we have three main tower PCs all hard lined into the router and the Xbox. Then we have Sara?s old junkie laptop running wireless, George?s laptop has wireless and Katie?s laptop doesn?t but we?ll be buying a wireless USB key for her laptop. That?s a lot of machines. Sorry for the nerdery at the end of this post, I?m just so geeked out over how great this DSL service is.
Day 2 was over, so far two days home and two killings, ah it?s good to be home.