hero of the week, probably month!

Big, HUGE, shout out to Tobin for spending his entire evening helping these technically challenged Get $#!^ Done.  OK, let's be real, he didn't exactly "help" us, if anyone helped anyone, we helped him...I spent most of the evening resting on the sofa, pretending to be pregnant, and the hubby ended up spending lots of time fetching tools and doing dishes.  A special thanks to Mrs. Tobin for lending us her main man for the night--love the tee, btw.

Get $#!^ Done night included hooking up the surround sound system and all the speakers we have from the prior home owner and our own little pre and post fire collection.  We still have one subwoofer, one unidentifiable (probably another old subwoofer), and one small speaker left.  Party in the nursery?

Part 2 was my favorite moment of the night.  AT&T brilliantly connected our DSL in the outside wall of the addition to our house.  This meant that a signal trying to make its way down to the kitchen had to bounce around that room, through a small doorway going through the original exterior wall of our house, through the master, down the stairs, around the corner, you get the idea.  Tobes prepared us for the evening by sending us various links to possible repeaters and other solutions.  Fortunately (in this case anyway), we're pretty terrible at Getting $#!^ Done and barely had a chance to look at the links.  Although we were told by AT&T that that was the only DSL connection in the house and we would have to pay gobs of money more for them to wire another outlet, Tobes was prepared with ideas on how to salvage that problem.  The first being, plug the router in to other outlets and see if any of them work.  We tested the ideal location first and sho nuff, first jack worked!  After a year of crappy signal, all it took was moving the stinking box.  Yeah, we're technical idiots...

The computer situation was last and unfortunately, it was the least productive.  Our house apparently is where computers come to die.  When my office got new computers, I brought mine home, but of course as soon as we plugged it in here, the power source died.  We now have two dead boxes with perfectly good hard drives and no home computer and a laptop with two dead batteries.  Computers GSD night will have to be another time...