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wi-fiNALLY

not pooping

I’m now certain there’s not much Kevin can’t accomplish.

After two weeks of main-ISP blackout from the work-move fiasco, our broadband has been re-established.

The whole house, as originally conceived, is now wireless allowing me to to go anywhere inside or out.

The icecapades which is our front yard and deck has kept me from testing just what kind of range I can get.

I suppose I’m really sounding like an old fart carrying on about airport technology so much.. But until I can buy my very own heliodisplay, I think this is about the coolest damn consumer-available technology out there. (that and Listerine Stripsâ„¢).

I’m giddy… not blogging.

THINK

wi-fi and listerine strips

baguettes and bandwidth

Alright… I know this is…. like…. “oh my gawed… like… soooooooo three years ago….” But it’s new to me so piss off.

My wednesday “on”. So off to work I went…

Ran a lot of errands which consisted of going to the bank, the post office, a sign fabricator and picking up metal laminate chips and meeting with the primary client’s new restaurant manager.

The meeting went fine – although I suspect this guy won’t be around for long. He’s only been on the job for two weeks and he’s go that “whiny / bitchy” aura around him. He originally went to school for graphic design but dropped out – and somehow has found himself in his early 30’s with three kids and a career in restaurant management. At first I was worried about his temperament, but I re-calibrated my mannerisms and by the end of the meeting he thought I was a “cool guy”…

“These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
(*circling gestures with hand*)

Had a kick ass salad at The Saint Louis Bread Company, known in other states as “Panera Bread Co.” They’re a STL-based restaurant that’s been around forever.. It’s only been recently that they snazed up their menu, rebranded sans the “St. Louis” label, and went national. It’s all just “fast casual” and a great alternative to sucking down a cheeseburger.

So after polishing off my lunch, I decide to treat myself to a cranberry walnut bagel for desert and browse through some backlogged email… When I wake the laptop up the little airport thingie-ma-bob up in the corner blinks and ticker-tapes a message to me: “Panera Bread Co”.

So… I sit and chat a little and fire off a few emails from the comfort of my booth, bagel-in-paw and think “WOW… THIS IS SOOOO FUTURISTIC”

It’s the 21st Century and it doesn’t really “feel” like it…

I have to confess that Listerine Strips and Wi-Fi are the only things that make me “Feel” like I’m living in the 21st Century.

Guess it’ll be a while before I see a hover-VW.

Guess it’ll be even longer before I embrace that other newfangled “blog” thing everyone is talking about.

LIVE

teathered

the home office…urr.. I mean kitchen.

Have I mentioned I love the PowerBook?

I’m the freak in the family that gets up at the crack of dawn. It’s nice… Quiet… I’ll lounge in my jammys and slug down a pot of coffee and read. Thanks to Apple Computer, I’ve got something else to fill those dewy hours of the early AM.

Broke down and opened one of the (hundreds) of “TRY AOL TODAY” direct mail pieces that have been cluttering my drawer at the office. I figure if Steve Case wants to give me internet access for 45 days for free – then what the hell. Other more pressing projects at the new house take priority over establishing a dedicated link to the web for now. Eventually, mojobear promises the whole house will be wi-fi including some crazy scheme to marry my old G4 tower running iTunes with a Sony Media drive and tie the whole thing into the stereo system at the house.

In the meantime, I’m confined to the kitchen where the only phone jack in the whole house is. This isn’t so bad, it’s kind of nice to peck at the computer and have a coffee maker within arm’s reach. *My figure would suggest that it’s more important to be within arm’s reach of the refrigerator.

Nonetheless – it’s nice to spend the mornings retrieve emails, surf, (and not read blogs).