January 25, 2015

Last night I didn't actually get to bed until around two o'clock, which means I only got about five hours of sleep last night. That is not enough.

I got up at seven o'clock so I could take a shower and be ready when the cable guy came to hook up the internet. The window was eight o'clock to ten o'clock. He didn't make it here until sometime after nine o'clock. I would have liked that extra hour of sleep.

But the dude showed up. At first there was some worry that he wouldn't be able to hook up the cable in the box downstairs because there was only one line coming into the house and that was being used by the satellite. The original plan was to run a line into the room on the other side of the stairs. But that room doesn't have any outlets so he was going to have to bring it in that room and then put an outlet in the room on the other side of the wall and put the modem behind the couch. After we talked through it for a minute he decided he would try to patch into one of the cables going into one of the unused rooms upstairs because that was already headed into the room with the cable box. Thankfully, that ended up working out.

When it came to hooking up the modem, we brought over the one from the old house but he couldn't activate it because the serial number was obscured. I told him we got it from the cable company but it wasn't showing up. I told him that we were actually still customers and when he looked up the old address he was able to find it. In order to activate it we had to transfer the internet over here, meaning we lost it at the old house. There was a moment of hesitation because if something didn't work here it would probably be a pain in the butt trying to get the internet back at the old house. But we pulled the trigger and it ended up working out.

The only downside was that he didn't think the pre-wired ethernet would work. And when I tried it, it didn't. That wasn't much of a problem because I was able to hook up the wireless router and the whole house now has internet. I'm not giving up on the pre-wired ethernet though. It doesn't make any sense that it won't work and I want to figure it out. Much like figuring out why my 3TB hard drive won't work with my new motherboard.

But we have internet now. It took just shy of five months but we finally got it. That will make this semester of school so much less stressful. It will be nice not having to go over to the old house every night. I'm thinking tomorrow I will bring my desktop over. Still not sure where I'm going to put it because I need to clear coat the one desk that isn't broken (and send the split one back). I'm also hoping I remember where I put the screws for my TV so I can put the stand back on. It would be nice to mount it on the wall again but I don't want to be drilling into the new walls.

After lunch I eventually got around to taking a nap. It was so nice. Then I played some Fantasy Life and watched TV. Not a very productive use of my time. Productivity starts tomorrow. Textbooks here I come.

My sister came over tonight and made dinner. She made chicken burrito things for her and my mom and she made me fake chicken fajitas. She also made the rice that she makes that is really good. I ate way too much. And then she made these cinnamon ball things for dessert. So much regret after that meal but it was delicious.

The rest of my night was spent watching Modern Family and Sirens, which is a good show but I only saw a couple episodes before I stopped watching TV. I also clicked around the internet and ended up playing some emulated SNES games. It is amazing how bad the graphics are. The SNES used to look so good. And then the N64 came out and blew my mind. And again with the original XBOX. And the XBOX 360. And the PC. If I ever travel into the future I'm definitely going to check out the graphics on video games. Although at that point people will probably have to jack their body into something and the graphics will be as real as real life. Technology.

Now I'm going to go to bed. Or maybe when the current episode of Sirens is over. Tomorrow is going to be rough. I really need to get up and exercise.