I'm blogging from my very own house . . .

After several tries, we finally have the interent at our house. Who knew Norton anti-virus was really, well, a virus in combination with our Quest broadband?

What's that you asked? How did I come to that conclusion?

Well, we got all the stuff we needed to set up our internet. We even scored a new Dell to make life less complicated. We sat down, plugged the modem in, started up "Quick Start" (a completely perfect example of false advertising on the part of our ISP), and it didn't work. We called technical support. They didn't know why it didn't work so they decided to send a repairman to our house. I went and monkeyed around in all the wires in the storage closet and discovered that every phone jack in our home goes . . . nowhere. The guy that lived here before had an elaborate set up, blasting high speed internet to every room in the house. (I think he was a gamer.) He left the set up . . . except the modem and router that connected all those lines.

So, we found the line that comes in the house. We redneck rigged a connection by taking the phone plate off the wall and using really long phone cords to hook our one computer to the line under the stairs.

It worked! We were almost ready to rock when OneCare (their personal protection software) yelled at us for having Norton. We didn't know we had Norton. It just comes on the computer. It tried to uninstall it and the whole thing shut down. When we turned it back on things were messed up and there was no pinging the modem . . . whatever the heck that means.

We talked to the nice man from India again . . . (what? What? Repeat that please? I felt like an idiot. I can understand kids, but not this guy!) . . . and we had to type in a lot of technical number stuff and BAM! Internet! So, now Dad can work in our basement when the baby comes. Which isn;t terrible because the basement stays cool. Everyone will want to be in the basement!

Now it will be harder for me to avoid posting photos . . .